骨質疏鬆症是指骨頭組織變薄及骨質密度隨著時間流失。它是最常見的一種骨頭疾病。在美國，根據估計超過50歲以上的婦女，大約每五位就有一位患有骨質疏鬆症而且50歲以上的婦女大約有一半會有髖關節、手腕或者脊椎骨的骨折。 一般而言，骨質疏鬆症並沒有特異的症狀，並且通常疾病的早期，並沒有任何症狀。它的主要後果是骨折風險的增加。在疾病發生的後期，症狀包括骨頭疼痛、壓痛、無明顯的外傷或甚至沒有任何外傷史就造成了骨折，身高變矮(甚至多達6英寸)，因為脊髓骨折造成下背痛、脖子痛，甚至外觀造成明顯駝背，也稱為「dowager’s hump」。由於大部分病人都會有下背痛，我們也想知道是否我們有方法可以提早察覺症狀以及是否下背痛和骨質疏鬆症之間有其他任何相關連的因素？因此，我們做了過去十年的文獻回顧。材料和方法：我們回顧了在過去10年的文章（自2000以來）。 我們利用medline通過使用下背痛和骨質疏鬆症（與焦點）從西元2000年已來到現在，並將語言限制在英文，發現了總共24篇文章（包括4個評論文章），經由這些文獻，設法發現下背痛與骨質疏鬆症之間是否有任何關聯、診斷及治療方法。

Osteoporosis is the thinning of bone tissue and loss of bone density over time. It is the most common type of bone disease. Researchers estimate that about 1 out of 5 American women over the age of 50 years has osteoporosis. About half of all women over the age of 50 years will experience a fracture of the hip, wrist, or vertebra. It has no specific symptoms, and usually, there are no symptoms in the early stages of the disease. Its main consequence is an increased risk of bone fracture. Symptoms occurring late in the disease may include bone pain, tenderness, fractures with little or no trauma, loss of height (by as much as 15 cm) over time, low back pain due to fractures of the spinal bones, neck pain due to fractures of the spinal bones, or even stooped posture or kyphosis, also called a “dowager’s hump”. Because most patients will suffer from low back pain, we wondered if there were any new methods through which early symptoms could be detected and any relationships between low back pain and osteoporosis? Therefore, we reviewed articles from the past 10 years (since 2000). We checked medline using the key words ‘low back pain’ and ‘osteoporosis’, and limited the search to the English language. We found 24 articles (including four review articles) and focused on the relationship between low back pain and osteoporosis, diagnosis, and treatment.