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5. NON-PHARMACOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS
Course Overview
This course focuses on preventing fragility fractures with non-pharmacological interventions that involve improving and maintaining normal bone mineral density and minimizing any further bone loss.
After completing this course, you should:
- Understand the central role of the primary care physician in the prevention of fragility fractures.
- Know the evidence for the value of calcium supplementation, with or without vitamin D supplementation, for healthy musculoskeletal aging according to expert consensus meeting of ESCEO and IOF.
- Describe lifestyle measures to prevent fragility fractures with non-pharmacological interventions.
Self-assessment criteria:
- You must complete a multiple-choice question-based assessment to test your understanding of the content covered in this course.
- There are 7 questions with a time limit of 15 minutes to complete the assessment. Once this time has elapsed, the assessment will be considered completed at its current level of progress.
- A maximum of three attempts are allowed to pass the self-assessment.
- The pass mark is 80%.
If you successfully pass the assessment, you will be awarded certification for course 5 and progress to course 6.