Therapeutic agents for osteoporotic pain

Low back pain (LBP) is one of the major symptoms of elderly patients with osteoporosis. Pain control is important because pain hinders quality of life. The pathogenesis of the osteoporosis-related LBP is divided as follows, (1) vertebral fracture with bone fragility, (2) imbalance of sagittal alignment, (3) osteoporotic bone pain, (4) reduction of the descending pain inhibition system of serotonine, (5) psychological condition, (6) neural pain. For the treatment of osteoporosis-related LBP, there are two types of medicine. One is a medicine for osteoporosis with an analgetic action, another is an analgetic agent. In this chapter, we explained various analgetic agents for osteoporosis-related LBP.