DECREASE IN BONE DENSITY AT DIFFERENT AGES (the complexity of the issue)
Osteoporosis in the minds of physicians and the population is associated with fractures and, perhaps unconsciously, has been known since the advent of associative thinking. Treatment of fractures (traumatic or osteoporotic) didn't change much - distraction, reposition, immobilization; however, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis (except for taking fish oil for a particular form of bone demineralization in infants) was initiated not long ago.