What are the conditions that need to be considered when suffering from osteoporosis? 1, age, usually women > 50 years old (menstruation stopped), men > 65 years old, you need to consider the beginning of osteoporosis; 2, older people with “back pain”, or pain in many parts of the body, especially in sitting, bending, turning, most obvious in the morning when getting up, but after activity to reduce, you need to consider osteoporosis; 3. Stooping, hunchback and shortening height. These symptoms are the result of osteoporosis in the elderly, the bones can not bear the weight, the thoracic and lumbar spine constantly occurring tiny compression fractures; prone to fractures, it is known that children often fall, but rarely see them fracture, why? Because their fractures are strong and resilient, while the elderly, a very small trauma can appear in the femoral neck, radius, humerus surgical neck, lumbar vertebrae fractures, the reason is that the elderly bones are not strong, and brittle, a slight external force can occur fractures, we have even seen many times the elderly, violent coughing, sneezing after the fracture phenomenon.