Why are older people prone to fractures?

Elderly due to osteoporosis, bone becomes brittle, inadvertent trauma or fall is prone to fracture. Elderly people in the inadvertent trauma or pain, should first go to the hospital to do an x-ray or magnetic resonance imaging, clear whether it is fracture caused pain. 1. Thoracolumbar compression fracture is more common osteoporotic fracture. The elderly lift a bucket of water or accidentally ride a battery car bump, if you show back pain, first of all to consider whether to show the compression fracture of the thoracic and lumbar spine. For this type of fracture, after ordinary x-ray is difficult to find, it should do the magnetic resonance of the thoracic and lumbar spine, after magnetic resonance vertebral body density contrast, can be found to show osteoporosis fracture. 2. The elderly accidentally fall wrist landing, if showing wrist swelling deformity, limited mobility. Also consider if there is evidence of a fracture of the distal radius, which is usually diagnosed by x-ray. When a fracture is present, it is usually treated with closed reduction and plaster fixation.