The effects of ageing on the musculoskeletal system

SENILE OSTEOPOROSIS

Clinical Features and Complications

•Global body aches

•High fractures risk•Kyphosis

•Kyphosis

•Lordosis

•Vertebral compression fractures

•Physiologic lordosis of the lumbar spine

Multiple compression fractures

•Healing compression fractures

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

•Loss of trabeculation and increasing lacunae

•Loss of bone integrity