Lecture Details
Target Audience:
This presentation is designed for:
- Primary care professionals – Often the first to hear patients’ complaints about widespread joint pain, stiffness, and muscle weakness.
- Gynecologists – Managing menopausal symptoms and hormone changes but may not fully recognize musculoskeletal manifestations.
- Orthopedic, Sports and Pain physicians – Encountering patients with frozen shoulder, arthritis, and tendon injuries that may be hormonally driven.
- Patients – Experiencing unexplained joint pain, muscle loss, and injury susceptibility as they transition through menopause.
Learning Objectives:
By attending this session, participants will:
- Recognize the Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Menopause
- Identify the collective signs and symptoms associated with estrogen loss, including:
Musculoskeletal pain and arthralgia - Loss of lean muscle mass
- Bone density reduction and fracture risk
- Increased tendon and ligament injuries
- Adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)
- Cartilage matrix fragility contributing to osteoarthritis progression
- Identify the collective signs and symptoms associated with estrogen loss, including:
- Identify At-Risk Populations
- Understand which patients are most susceptible based on age, medical history, hormonal changes, and lifestyle factors.
- Recognize how this syndrome may present in different specialties, including primary care, gynecology, orthopedics, and pain medicine.
- Develop a Preventive and Treatment Strategy
- Explore proactive approaches to slow or prevent musculoskeletal decline in perimenopausal and postmenopausal patients.
- Discuss evidence-based interventions including lifestyle modifications, physical therapy, regenerative medicine, and potential hormone-based strategies.
- Provide a framework for interdisciplinary collaboration to improve diagnosis and patient outcomes.
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