Booklets and resources

We have lots of booklets and resources available to help you look after your bones and live well with osteoporosis.

On this page, you can find links to a wide range of booklets and resources to support you.

Booklets

Our booklets answer the most common questions about osteoporosis and looking after your bones.

How to look after your bones can help you understand how eating a healthy, balanced diet and regular exercise can help your bones.

• How to look after your bones (digital)

• How to look after your bones (printable)

Your bones and osteoporosis can help you understand your osteoporosis diagnosis and what you can do to keep your bones healthy.

• Your bones and osteoporosis (digital)

• Your bones and osteoporosis (printable)

Help for pain and other symptoms caused by spinal fractures can help you understand why spinal fractures cause pain and how to relieve it.

• Help for pain and other symptoms caused by spinal fractures

Audio recordings

Listen to our specialist nurses read two helpful guides.

An introduction to osteoporosis explains osteoporosis, osteopenia and recovering from broken bones.

• An introduction to osteoporosis audio recording

Healthy living for strong bones covers healthy eating, calcium, vitamin D, exercise for bones.

• Healthy living for strong bones audio recording

Easy Read booklets

Our Easy Read booklets use simple language and pictures to help you understand your bone health and osteoporosis.

• Easy read - All about osteoporosis and bones

• Easy read - Healthy living for strong bones

About osteoporosis and osteopenia

• How your bones work

• What is osteoporosis?

• Osteoporosis symptoms

• What is osteopenia?

• Osteoporosis in men

• Osteoporosis in children

• Transgender people and osteoporosis

• Pregnancy and osteoporosis

• Other conditions and osteoporosis

Causes and risk factors

• Risk factors you can change

• Risk factors you cannot change

• Medicines that increase your risk

• Health conditions that increase your risk

• Worried about your risk

• Reducing your risk

Diagnosis and testing

• Fracture risk assessments

• Bone density scan (DEXA/DXA)

• Understanding your bone density scan results

• Other scans and tests

• Talking to your doctor about your bone health

• Your bone health appointment checklist

Treatment and medicines

• Abaloparatide

• Alendronate

• Denosumab

• Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)

• Ibandronate

• Raloxifene

• Risedronate

• Romosozumab

• Teriparatide

• Zoledronate

• Finding the right osteoporosis treatment

• Pain relief medicines

• Complementary therapies for bone health

Rare side effects of some osteoporosis medicines

• Jaw bone problems

• Unusual thigh bone breaks

Food and supplements

• Eating well for your bones

• Calcium

• Calcium-rich food chooser

• Vitamin D

• Other vitamins and minerals for bone health

• Are there any foods I should avoid?

• Further food facts and bones

Exercise

• How to exercise safely for bones

• Warm up exercises

• Cool down exercises

• Getting started with exercise

• Exercise for bones

• Impact exercise to help make your bones stronger

• Strength exercise to help make your bones stronger

• Exercise to help your balance

• Exercise for symptoms of spinal fractures

• Exercises for back pain after spinal fractures

• Exercises to help with posture

• Dance for your bones

• Pilates and osteoporosis

Living with osteoporosis and broken bones

• Moving and lifting safely

• Bending forward with osteoporosis

• Spinal fractures (vertebral fractures)

• Broken hips, wrists and other bones

• Managing pain

• Complementary therapies for pain

• Emotional wellbeing and osteoporosis

• Clothing, body image and osteoporosis

• Employment and work life

• Financial support

• Support at home

• Travelling with osteoporosis

• Caring for someone with osteoporosis

• Daily living after fractures

Videos

We have lots of videos that are full of helpful information to help you look after your bones with confidence.

You will find videos throughout our health information webpages.

You can also watch our Bone Matters videos with leading experts in osteoporosis and bone health.

And our Specialist Osteoporosis Helpline Nurses answer your frequently asked questions.

Resources for volunteers

If you volunteer for the Royal Osteoporosis Society, you can order printed resources by completing our online form.

Find out more about our printed resources.