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My Broken Wrist Was a Red Flag that I Was Losing Bone Mass

As told to Erica RimlingerMy son, who had come home from college for the holidays, loaded up the car and headed back to school with his dad. I stayed at home to clean up after the whirlwind visit. “Whirlwind” could easily describe the mess in the bathroom. As I cleaned, I thought about how I didn’t miss this part of having a teenage son at home, and while I wasn’t paying attention, I slipped and fell, landing hard on my wrist and breaking it.At that time in my life, I had several osteoporosis risk factors. I was a middle-aged woman experiencing my first-ever fracture. Even though I’m a physici...

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