Osteomalacia and Rickets

Question 1

Softening of the bones in an adult due to a lack of vitamin D or a problem with the body’s ability to break down and use this vitamin.

Answer 1

Osteomalacia

Question 2

What are the symptoms of Osteomalacia?

Answer 2

1. Bone fractures that happen with very little injury
2. Muscle weakness

Question 3

What are the treatment of Osteomalacia?

Answer 3

Vitamin D, calcium and phosphorus supplements

Question 4

________- is a childhood disorder caused by a lack of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate. It leads to softening and weakening of the bones. It is rare in North America

Answer 4

Rickets

Question 5

The following are symptoms of Rickets. Except:

1. Bone pain or tenderness
2. Dental deformities
3. Decreased muscle tone
4. Increased bone fractures
5. Skeletal deformities
6. Asymmetrical or odd shaped skull
7. Bowlegs
8. Club foot
9. Bumps in the ribcage
10. Spine deformities (spine curves )
11. pigeon chest

Answer 5

Except: 8

Question 6

What is the goal of treating Rickets?

Answer 6

The goals of treatment are to relieve symptoms and correct the cause of the condition. The cause must be treated to prevent the disease from returning.

Question 7

What are the treatment of Rickets?

Answer 7

1. Replacing calcium, phosphorus, or vitamin D
2. Positioning or bracing may be used to reduce or prevent deformities.
3. Some skeletal deformities may require corrective surgery

Question 8

A group of children‘s diseases in which one or more growth ossification centers undergoes a period of degeneration, necrosis, followed by regeneration and usually deformity.

Answer 8

Osteochondroses

Question 9

What are the types of Osteochondroses?

Answer 9

• Legg - Calve - Perthes disease
• Kienboch’s disease
• Osgood-Schlatter’s disease
• Scheuermann’s Disease

Question 10

A vascular necrosis of the carpal lunate that causes pain and disability. Usually age 20 - 40. History of previous acute trauma or repetitive strain.

Answer 10

Kienboch’s disease

Question 11

One of the most common causes of knee pain in the adolescent. Involves microfractures in the area where the patellar tendon inserts into the tibial tubercle.

Answer 11

Osgood - Schlatter’s disease

Question 12

What is the most common presenting complaint for Osgood - Schlatter’s disease?

Answer 12

Pain is the most common presenting complaint along with swelling and tenderness

Question 13

Osteochondrosis of thoracic vertebrae with associated vertebral wedging, hyperkyphosis, advancing DJD, pain, deformity. Occurs between age 13 - 17 that affects males more than females.

Answer 13

Scheuermann’s Disease

Question 14

Is a condition that results from a loss of blood supply to an area of bone beneath the surface of a joint. The knee is most commonly affected, although also can occur in other joints, including your elbow and ankle. Teenagers and young adults usually affected.

Answer 14

Osteochondritis Dissecans

Question 15

The following are symptoms of Osteochondritis Dissecans. Except:

1. Pain is the most common symptom
2. A clicking sound when you move your joint
3. A “locking” of your joint
4. the joint “sticks” and won’t move through its full range of motion
5. A feeling that your joint is “giving way” or weakening
6. Absence of joint movement
7. Swelling and tenderness of the skin over your joint
8. Exacerbated by repetitive force (trauma or stress)

Answer 15

Except: 6