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Manage osteoporotic pain by treating osteoporosis and taking a multidimensional approach to pain management

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Although osteoporosis is referred as a silent disease due to its asymptomatic nature, many patients experience pain from osteoporosis-related fractures. Adequate pain management and osteoporosis treatment are necessary to improve patients’ health-related quality of life. Nonpharmacological (e.g. physical exercise, physiotherapy) and pharmacological (e.g. analgesics, antiresorptive agents) interventions are used to reduce fracture risk and manage pain.

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    Adis Medical Writers. Manage osteoporotic pain by treating osteoporosis and taking a multidimensional approach to pain management. Drugs Ther Perspect 34, 311–315 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40267-018-0504-4

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