[Physical therapy in osteoporosis]

The aims of physical therapy in the treatment of osteoporosis are lying in inhibition of progression of the degenerative process and combat of the symptoms. There is no chance of being cured of manifest osteoporosis but we can try to keep a "status presens" for giving the patient a possibility of an adequate quality of life. The used methods are mechanotherapy, electrotherapy and thermotherapy. Cryotherapy as an assisting method and therapeutic exercises especially act as a preventive measure against decreased function of locomotor system. All the other kinds of therapy try to reduce the principle symptom as pain and to produce an improvement of the general condition of the trophic situation.