Effects of Osteoporosis training
Osteoporosis mainly effects women, predomoniately post menapause, training will help..
Does training help.
What can osteoporosis exercise training do to help patients? While there has never been a randomised, double-blind trial of osteoporosis exercise training vs. no exercise, meta-analysis has shown one very clear positive effect of training.
Latest research.
The research shows that osteoporosis exercise training has the potential to prevent or reverse the bone loss in postmenopausal women by almost 1% per year. This is significant because rapid loss of bone mass is the leading cause of these fractures.
There are additional benefits to regular workouts. Exercise is likely to improve balance and coordination, thus reducing both the incidence and the severity of falls, and thus reducing the incidence of fractures.
However, it is also established that the effects of exercise will diminish over time if you stop exercising for example, while it is established that exercise before and during puberty produces large changes in BMD (bone mineral density), when exercise stops, bone loss probably occurs.
In summary.
What this teaches us is that regular, continued, weight bearing workouts are needed to maintain the bone mass gained. Good weight bearing workouts include weight-lifting, running, hiking, stair-climbing, step aerobics, dancing, racquet sports indeed, any activities that require your muscles to work against gravity. Swimming and walking, although good for cardiovascular fitness, have little effect on bone building.
