[Rehabilitation after osteoporosis-induced fracture. Getting your patient quickly back on her feet]

Appropriate rehabilitation is essential for patients with osteoporotic fracture, since it not only significantly improves their quality of life, but, in many cases, may even prevent a patient becoming a candidate for the nursing home, thus considerably reducing the costs to the social system. Rehabilitation of patients with osteoporosis includes adequate pain treatment, early mobilization, specific training of muscles and coordination, instruction on how to avoid falls, on nutrition, ergotherapy and sports therapy including informing the patient how to remain permanently active without outside help. In this manner, the risk of falls can be reduced, bone density increased and bone quality improved. With regard to the choice of therapeutic measures and technical aids (walking stick, walker, corset), attention must be paid to the individual needs of the patient.