| Paper title: |
KINETIC AND PROPHYLACTIC TREATMENT OF OSTEOPOROSIS ON YOUNG ADULTS |
| DOI: | . |
| Published in: | Volume VIII issue 2/ 2015 |
| Publishing date: | 2015 |
| Pages: | 110-119 |
| Author(s): |
Coşofreţ Ştefăniţă-Andrei Maria Daniela Crăciun |
| Abstract. | Osteoporosis is a skeletal disorder characterized by its quality degradation due to bone loss. The purpose of the study was to improve the development of early osteoporosis installed to 33 year old patient through physical therapy and hydrokinetotherapy. The diagnosis presented by the patient at the beginning of the kinetic treatment was hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, secondary severe osteoporosis. Kinetic and prophylactic treatment aims at the stagnation of disease progression, decreasing the degree of osteoporosis and social, work and family reintegration. T-score at the lumbar L1-L4 decreased by -0.2 and at the hip it decreased by -0.4 in 6 months and the degree of osteoporosis was decreased by -0.2 at lumbar level, respectively -0.4 at the hip. According to the results the applied kinesiology and hydrokinetotherapy to the patient has stalled and diminished the development of osteoporosis. |
| Keywords: | osteoporosis, prophylaxis, kinesiology, hydrokinetotherapy, DXA. |
| References: |
1. Georgescu Carmen, Osteoporoza fiziologie, diagnostic, tratament; Editura Risoprint Cluj-Napoca, 2005; 2. http://www.csid.ro/health/sanatate/osteoporoza-boala-oaselor-fragilepoate-fi-prevenita-14105830; 3. Păun, R., Tratat de medicină internă, Reumatologie Vol. II; Editura Medicală București, 1999; 4. Ionescu A., Gimnastica medicală, Editura ALL București, 1994. |
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