DISEASE DIRECTORY

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Musculoskeletal Disorders

 Amputee
Arthritis
Back and Spine
Bursitis
Chondromalacia
Congenital Anomalies
Connective Tissue
Costochondritis
Feet
Osteonecrosis
Osteoporosis
Paget's Disease
Repetitive Strain Injuries
Rotator Cuff Injury
Sprains and Strains
Support Groups
Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome
Tendonitis

  • AAOS Online Service Patient Education Brochures Osteoporosis - Osteoporosis. What is osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is a disease of progressive bone loss associated with an increased risk of fractures. What causes osteoporosis?
  • About.com Osteoporosis: Risk and Prevention - Find out your risk and how to prevent this disease.
  • Ace Zones: Osteoporosis - Several articles with information about this disorder.
  • Achilles Tendonitis Hub - Links to information and resources.
  • Arizona Osteoporosis Coalition - Comprehensive osteoporosis treatment and prevention information for families and sufferers of this disorder.
  • Arthritis Insight - Osteoporosis - Information about osteoporosis, including statistics, diagnosis, treatment, community center, news, tips and resources.
  • Bones and Osteoporosis - Questions related to the deterioration of bone density and whether a cure is available are discussed. Includes detection and prevention.
  • Boning Up on Osteoporosis - Boning Up on Osteoporosis: Osteoporosis, a condition of excessive skeletal fragility resulting in bones that break easily, leads to 1.5 million fractures per
  • Boning Up on Osteoporosis - Article by Carolyn J. Strange examining some things will help to lessen the effects of osteoporosis, and reduce its severity.
  • Dem Bones: Hip Fractures Dangerous For Elderly Men - Osteoporosis is less common in men, but when it does occur it can have serious effects. Dr. Dean, HealthCentral.
  • Doctor's Guide to the Internet - Osteoporosis - Discussion groups and newsgroups, related sites.
  • DrDonnica.com - Discusses treatment prevention, causes, symptoms and alternative treatment of osteoporosis.
  • Foundation For Osteoporosis Research And Education - An organization dedicated to serving both the public and medical community through research and education to increase the awareness of osteoporosis.
  • Health Link MCW - An article about Osteoporosis, its current evaluation and treatment.
  • Health Link MCW - An article about the diagnosis and treatment of Osteoporosis in older men.
  • HealthAtoZ - Osteoporosis Diary tracks your daily calcium intake, food supplements, herbal supplements and medications. Information about the disorder including risk factors, diagnostic tests and treatment.
  • Healthology Osteoporosis Focus - Learn how to prevent and treat this disease. Features webcasts or transcripts and articles.
  • Healthubs - Links to information about osteopenia.
  • Imaginis - Osteoporosis - Osteoporosis is a degenerative bone disease that primarily affects post-menopausal women. It is estimated that one in two women
  • Learn about Osteoporosis - Details about its impact on women's health and nutrition, and research on calcium absorption, vitamins, aerobic exercises, and treatments such as calcium supplements are discussed.
  • Malka Orthopaedics:Osteoporosis Treatment - Osteoporosis treatment includes exercise, Estrogen-Progestin replacement therapy and calcium supplements. Fosomax is reserved for special cases.
  • Mamas Health - Learn about osteoporosis, what causes it, and some statistics.
  • Mayo Clinic: Osteoporosis - Information on risk-factors, prevention and treatment of osteporosis.
  • MedicineNet - About Osteoporosis, its prevention, detection and therapies.
  • Medinfo: Osteoporosis - Easy to understand information for patients on osteoporosis.
  • Medinfo: Osteoporosis - Medinfo's patient information on osteoporosis, a disorder where the bones become weakened by loss of substance (osteopenia), leading to an increased risk of
  • Menopause and Osteoporosis - replacement therapy. Calcium deficiencies that cause osteoporosis are also treated with hormone replacement therapy when menopause begins.
  • Moonrise, Inc. - Dedicated to expanding the awareness of osteoporosis among both the medical and lay communities.
  • National Institute of Health - Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases - Information to health care professionals, patients and the public about metabolic bone diseases.
  • National Osteoporosis Campaign of Australia - Offers details about the NOCA, a charitable healthcare organization. Includes a patient contract, lifecheck, fact sheets and contact information.
  • National Osteoporosis Foundation - Fighting Osteoporosis and Promoting Bone Health
  • National Osteoporosis Society - The only UK national charity dedicated to eradicating osteoporosis and promoting bone health in both men and women.
  • National Osteoporosis Society Online - Osteoporosis literally means 'porous bones'. Osteoporosis occurs when the holes between bone become bigger, making it fragile and liable to break easily.
  • Natural Health Link - Detailed information on osteoporosis, symptoms, prevention, treatments and related nutritional and herbal supplements.
  • New Mexico Clinical Research & Osteoporosis Center - Special interest in clinical research, osteoporosis care, and bone density testing. Includes links patient and healthcare information.
  • NIAMS - The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), one of the research institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is the major Federal organization supporting research on bone diseases, incluing osteoporosis. Its Web site includes publications on bone dise
  • NIH ORBD-NRC - Osteoporosis Overview - Osteoporosis Overview. Men as well as women suffer from osteoporosis, a disease that can be prevented and treated. Facts and Figures,
  • OBGYN.net - Osteoporosis - Physician reviewed site offering medical professionals and women, the latest news and information on osteoporosis and women's health. OBGYN.net Osteoporosis.
  • OBGYN.net, Osteoporosis page - Physician reviewed site offering Medical Professionals and women news and information on osteoporosis.
  • Oregon Osteoporosis Center, Portland, Oregon - Provides clinical care and evaluation, clinical research activities, and educational programs, with a primary focus on osteoporosis and related disorders.
  • OsteoMark - Engaged in the discovery and commercialization of products associated with osteoporosis and other collagen-related diseases.
  • Osteoporosis - Description, the role of dietary calcium, risk factors,prevention, statistics.
  • Osteoporosis - Short text description of osteoporosis, risk factors, prevalence.
  • Osteoporosis - Information about osteoporosis. Part of Imaginis.com, a women's health website.
  • Osteoporosis - Information about osteoporosis, prevention and treatment. Endorsed by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada. Site available in English and French.
  • Osteoporosis - Gives a comprehensive analysis of how various nutrients affect this disorder.
  • Osteoporosis - Comprehensive information and resources to help understand and treat this common disorder.
  • Osteoporosis - An extensive look at what this is, the causes, diagnosis, supplements which may be helpful as well as estrogen replacement therapy. By Edward M. Staub, M.D.
  • Osteoporosis - Her recent diagnosis of osteoporosis caused Virginia Ramage Smith to do some serious investigations into the cause, treatment and prevention of this disease.
  • Osteoporosis - Osteoporosis. Complete Text: Download: 63K. Get Acrobat Reader. Osteoporosis is a condition characterized by substantial bone loss.
  • Osteoporosis - Existen varios factores que pueden incrementar la probabilidad de que desarrollemos Osteoporosis, que son: Tratamiento de Osteoporosis.
  • Osteoporosis (Easy to Read) - Osteoporosis - Easy to Read. What is osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones. Isn’t osteoporosis something that happens only to older people? No.
  • Osteoporosis - A Complete Guide - From HeliosHealth.com, with expert information, news and discussions. Topics include causes, diagnosis, risk factors, prevention and treatment.
  • Osteoporosis - A Preventable and Treatable Bone Disease - Information on evaluation, epidemiology, prevention and treatment.
  • Osteoporosis and bone physiology - Osteoporosis description, diagnosis, treatment, and explanation of underlying physiology.
  • Osteoporosis and bone physiology - Osteoporosis description, diagnosis, treatment, physiology. Animations, bone turnover, interactive cases, bone density. Osteoporosis
  • Osteoporosis and Paget's Disease Drug Database - Database of commonly prescribed drugs for osteoporosis and paget's disease.
  • Osteoporosis and Women's Health - Directory of treatment and prevention sites features topics such as calcium absorption and bone density, menopause and hormone replacement therapy and cures.
  • Osteoporosis Australia - Short text description of osteoporosis, risk factors, prevalence.
  • Osteoporosis Centre - Definitions, illustrations, hip fractures.
  • Osteoporosis Centre - what is osteoporosis, types of bone fracture ... - Osteoporosis - what it is, the risk of hip fracture and who qualifies for diagnostic service rebates. Topics on Osteoporosis currently available,
  • Osteoporosis Clinical Research Study - Study is underway to evaluate an investigational medications ability to stimulate new bone formation in women with osteoporosis, and prevent future fractures.
  • Osteoporosis Education Project - Details about OEP and its program which focuses on natural programs that will prevent, halt, and reverse osteoporosis. Includes a newsletter, research, calendar of events and contact details.
  • Osteoporosis Explained - Details of what this is and who is at risk, the scale of the problem and costs involved.
  • Osteoporosis Health Center - Resources and links by DrDonnica.com.
  • Osteoporosis in Men - Information on risk factors, testing and treatments for men suffering from osteoporosis.
  • Osteoporosis Information - ELDER eStore - Links and resources for this musculoskeletal disorders. Provides help to prevent from getting this disease and contact details.
  • Osteoporosis on Medbroadcast.com - Factual medical information about osteoporosis.
  • Osteoporosis Online - The Osteoporosis Society of Canada's Web site, Osteoporosis Online, provides up-to-date information on the risks, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis.
  • Osteoporosis Resource Center, by Spine-Health - In-depth review of causes, risk factors, prevention and full range of treatment options.
  • Osteoporosis Resource Centers - Information on osteoporosis, osteopenia, and other bone diseases, listing of doctors and osteoporosis treatment centers in the Mid-Atlantic area.
  • Osteoporosis Resources - Links to resources for this disease.
  • Osteoporosis Society of Canada - The mission of the Osteoporosis Society of Canada is to educate, empower and support individuals and communities in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis
  • Osteoporosis Treatment - Includes information and resources about prevention and treatment. Provides a search to find ongoing clinical trials.
  • Osteoporosis Treatment - Treatment of osteoporosis and bone loss ... - Find information and resources about osteoporosis, prevention and treatment. Provides a search to find ongoing clinical trials for osteoporosis.
  • Osteoporosis Tutorial - Osteoporosis. Return to the tutorial menu. Consequences of Osteoporosis. Osteoporotic bone is histologically normal in its composition--there is just less bone.
  • Osteoporosis/Bone Loss: Nutritional causes, therapies, remedies & ... - Features a nutritional analysis of Osteoporosis / Bone Loss, and discusses prevention, various therapies, remedies & treatment options, including AAACa.
  • PÁGINAS PARA PACIENTES > Osteoporosis - Disponemos también de un Informe completísimo sobre la Osteoporosis en la Comunidad Europea (Desarrollar huesos fuertes y prevenir facturas). CONCEPTO.
  • Prevention Special Report: Osteoporosis - Top overlooked osteoporosis symptoms, information on diagnosis using bone density tests, and prevention / treatment options.
  • Researching natural bone health - Osteoporosis Eduction Project - Osteoporosis Education Project researches natural treatments to prevent bone fractures. Osteoporosis is more than just calcium and
  • RXinsider: Osteoporosis - A free informational monograph for patient counseling and education.
  • Straight Talk about Osteoporosis - Information on how to catch the early signs, and learn how to prevent this bone disorder.
  • Test Your Calcium IQ - Interactive quiz designed to educate people about calcium and their bone health.
  • The Osteoporosis Center - Includes discussions on diagnosis, complications, treatments and newest osteoporosis drugs discussed.
  • Veritas Medicine - Clinical trial listings for Osteoporosis. Perform a personalized search to find ongoing trials that match your needs.