Bone Diseases Guide by Dr. Burak: What You Need to Know.

Publication Date:May 5, 2022

In order to maintain the health of your bones, which keeps our body afloat, you need to have a bone scan regularly. There are many factors that cause the appearance of bone diseases. Bone diseases, which are likely to occur in all the bones in our body, cause the bones to become more fragile, weakening over time. The most dangerous of these bone diseases is congenital bone disease. However, reconstructive treatments are available for such conditions. Below you will find brief information about the most common bone diseases:

Most Common Bone Diseases Explained:

Cervical Spondylosis

Cervical spondylosis is a disease also known as cervical osteoarthritis, in which the joints in the neck are affected as a result of repeated minor traumas depending on age, which usually occurs in people over the age of 40 and progresses with age.

Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis, known as bone resorption, in the word means spongy (porous) bone. Cavities form inside the bones, reducing their density. This, in turn, leads to the fact that they become prone to breakage and cracking.

Metatarsalgia

The pain in the area where the comb bones are located, also known as metatarsal bones, at the base of the foot is called “metatarsalgia”. Trauma can be caused by structural foot deformities such as length differences, flatfoot, hallux valgus, hallux rigitus, some disorders, bone and soft tissue disorders.

Polymyalgia Rheumatica

Polymyalgia rheumatica is a muscle of rheumatic disease that causes pain and stiffness in certain muscle groups. Unlike most inflammatory rheumatic diseases, it hold not the joints, but the muscles, and with proper treatment, it also heals in a very short time.

Bone Cancer

Tumor tissues can arise as a result of uncontrolled proliferation of cells of different origins and biological properties located in bone tissue for various reasons. Since bone tissue is well-blooded and has a close relationship with the surrounding tissues, its spread and metastasis can be observed

Osteoarthritis

It is a disorder that occurs when the cartilage tissue surrounding the ends of the bones wears out over time, wears out.

Rheumatoid Arthritis

It is a chronic rheumatic disease characterized by pain, swelling in many joints, including the hands and feet, and morning stiffness or stiffness, which often exceeds half an hour.

Rickets

Rickets is the name given to the condition of softening and weakening of the bones, which is usually observed in children due to excessive and prolonged vitamin D deficiency.

Bone Disease

It is a silent and insidious disease that leads to thinning and easier fracture of the bones over time.

Spondylitis

Spondylitis, which usually occurs at a young age; a painful, inflammatory type of rheumatism that affects the spine and the joint between the spine and hipbone.

Aplastic Anemia

Red blood cells that are continuing to produce at any time cannot reproduce healthy without vitamin B12, and their production begins to decrease. When there is not enough vitamin B12, red blood cell production is disrupted and the body cannot produce erythrocytes

Arthritis

It is an inflammatory condition that occurs in the joints, produced by the body. Along with inflammation of the joints such as the ankle, knee, wrist, swelling can cause conditions such as diseases that lead to hardening and pain in the joints.

Fibrous Dysplasia

In short, it is a localized, benign, developmental bone disease of unknown cause characterized by the fact that healthy bone is replaced by weak and poorly organized fibro osseous tissue.

Hip Fracture

It is a fracture of the thigh bone that forms the hip joint, that is, the upper part of the femur.

Graft-Versus-Host Disease

It is a complex clinical syndrome that leads to organ dysfunction as a result of a severe immunological reaction mediated by healthy T-lymphocytes taken from the donor and given to the patient together with stem cells

Tennis Elbow

Tennis elbow is a condition that occurs in those who use the forearm muscles excessively and results in pain in the elbow.

Paget Disease Of Bone

It is a benign chronic bone disease and is the most common bone disease after osteoporosis in the older age group of patients.

Stress Fracture

Fractures that occur as a result of exposure of the bones involved to more than their potential

Dislocation

It is a permanent detachment of the articular surfaces. It can’t return to his normal position on his own.

Spondylosis

It is a disease that occurs when the discs between the vertebrae Decayed and degenerated, as well as the articular cartilage between the facet joints.

Curvature Of The Spine

It is a disorder that is usually diagnosed at the age of growth. It occurs when the vertebrae curve to the right, left, or rotate around themselves, depending on different reasons.

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Head surgeon Dr. Burak Sercan

Here we go! I was born in my lovely hometown of Izmir in 1986. I am married and have two wonderful children of my own. I completed my primary education at Ali Şir Nevai Primary School, and my secondary and high school education at İzmir Çiğli Milli Piyango Anatolian High School. I graduated from Ege University’s Faculty of Medicine in 2010. During my compulsory service in Van Erciş, I passed the specialization exam and started my specialization in the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery at Ege University.

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