Due to the increasing number of elderly people all over the world, the problem of osteoporosis and its complications is becoming increasingly relevant from year to year.

Scientists involved in providing medical care to patients with diseases of the musculoskeletal system constantly search for and study the effectiveness of various methods of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of osteoporosis and its complications.

A recent tradition shared by the scientists from the Central and Eastern Europe involved in studying bone and muscular diseases and Vitamin D status is to gather in Vienna on the eve of Christmas celebrations to discuss important initiatives of the year, share their professional experience, present independent findings on the new methods and improved diagnostics and management of bone and muscular diseases.