Diseases of the Human Body 5th Edition by Carol D. Tamparo, Marcia Lewis

Exercise 3

Thirty-five-year-old Donna Duckworth is learning how to care for her newborn of 5 weeks, when she bends over the baby's crib and feels something give in her back. The next day and the following week, the pain becomes unbearable in her back. She is breast feeding and does not want to take any medication, so she lives with the intense and continuing pain. Within a few weeks, she can no longer stand it, so she goes to see her primary care provider, who orders blood work, does a complete physical, and as a result sends her to an orthopedist who takes x-rays and does a bone density test. The diagnosis comes back as "severe idiopathic osteoporosis." She has fractured three of her lumbar and four of her cervical vertebra.
As a health-care practitioner, what teaching tips would you offer Donna