"Measuring Osteoporosis" is one of the activities of the awareness campaign "Don't Break & Don't Refract" at the Faculty of Law

Under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Dr. Hesham Tamraz, Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development, and Prof. Dr. Mohamed Safi, Dean of the Faculty of Law, the Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs Sector, in cooperation with the Faculty of Law, is organizing an awareness campaign on osteoporosis under the title "Don't Break & Don't Refract", on Monday, June 27, at 9 am and will continue until 12 noon at the Faculty of Law.

During the campaign, the rate of osteoporosis will be measured, in the presence of Prof. Dr. Mona El-Sibai, Head of the Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Rheumatology at the University’s Faculty of Medicine, and coordinated by Prof. Dr. Gehan Ragab, Advisor to the Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, and Prof. Dr. Yassin El-Shazly, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs and the supervision of Mr. Suhail Hamza, Assistant Secretary of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs.

It is worth noting that osteoporosis or osteoporosis is a rheumatic disease caused by a decrease in bone density or thinning in the skeleton; Which causes severe pain, and makes a person more susceptible to fractures.

In order to know the causes of this disease and methods of prevention, it is necessary to know the role of metabolism in the body, how to regulate calcium, hormones, and vitamins, and the formation of the skeleton that protects the body.

This structure is also considered a storehouse of calcium, which has a vital function in cell activity, heart functions and communication between nerves, and this requires its presence in a sufficient proportion in the blood for this functional purpose. The skeleton loses its mass at a rate of 0.3% in men and 0.5% in women annually, and this loss occurs in the mid-twenties and the rate increases over the age of forty, where the rate of loss increases to 2-3% annually to make the bones brittle and thin, which exposes them to fracture easily.