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

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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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