Your bones help you move, give you shape and support your body. They are living tissues that rebuild constantly throughout your life. During childhood and your teens, your body adds new bone faster than it removes old bone. After about age 20, you can lose bone faster than you make bone. To have strong bones when you are young, and to prevent bone loss when you are older, you need to get enough calcium, vitamin D, and exercise. You should also avoid smoking and drinking too much alcohol.
Bone diseases can make bones easy to break. Different kinds of bone problems include:
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- Bone Diseases (National Library of Medicine)Your bones help you move, give you shape and support your body. They are living tissues that rebuild constantly ... childhood and your teens, your body adds new bone faster than it removes old bone. After about ...
- Bone Infections (National Library of Medicine)Like other parts of the body, bones can get infected. The infections are usually bacterial, but can also be fungal. They may spread to the bone from nearby skin ...
- Bone Density (National Library of Medicine)Strong bones are important for your health. A bone mineral density (BMD) test is the best way to measure ...
- Bone Grafts (National Library of Medicine)A bone graft transplants bone tissue. Surgeons use bone grafts to repair and rebuild diseased bones in your hips, knees, spine, and sometimes other bones ...
- Bone Marrow Transplantation (National Library of Medicine)Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside some of your bones, such as your hip and thigh bones. It contains immature cells, called stem cells. The ... platelets, which help the blood to clot. A bone marrow transplant is a procedure that replaces a ...
- Paget's Disease of Bone (National Library of Medicine)What is Paget's disease of bone? Paget's disease of bone is a chronic bone disorder. Normally, there is a process in which your bones break down and then regrow. In Paget's disease, ...
- Bone Cancer (National Library of Medicine)Cancer that starts in a bone is uncommon. Cancer that has spread to the bone from another part of the body is more common. There are three types of bone cancer: Osteosarcoma - occurs most often between ages 10 ...
- Fractures (National Library of Medicine)A fracture is a break, usually in a bone. If the broken bone punctures the skin, it is called an open ... falls, or sports injuries. Other causes are low bone density and osteoporosis, which cause weakening of the ...
- Bone Marrow Diseases (National Library of Medicine)Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside some of your bones, such as your hip and thigh bones. It contains stem cells. The stem cells can ... the platelets that help with blood clotting. With bone marrow disease, there are problems with the stem ...
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta (National Library of Medicine)... imperfecta (OI) is a genetic disorder in which bones fracture (break) easily. Sometimes the fractures happen for ... you make collagen, a protein that helps make bones strong. OI can range from mild to severe, ...
