Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones. It happens when you lose too much bone, make too little bone or both. As a result, your bones become weak and may break from a minor fall or, in serious cases, even from simple actions, like sneezing or bumping into furniture. Osteoporosis means “porous bone.”

Does Pilates help Osteoporosis?

Not only can these core-strengthening workouts strengthen bones and help prevent future injury, they may also help melt belly fat, which may further help protect against osteoporosis. Last year, a Harvard study found that women with more visceral belly fat had decreased bone density levels.

Does Yoga help Osteoporosis?

The National Institutes of Health estimate that 10 million Americans have osteoporosis and another 34 million have osteopenia, low bone mass, that’s often a precursor of osteoporosis. And, although men have it, too, when it comes to bone loss, women suffer more. Eighty percent of those with osteoporosis are women, and half of all women will have an osteoporosis-related fracture after age 50. Indeed, denial may seem like the only option for women seeing risk factors beyond their control, such as being thin and having a small build. But here’s a wake-up call. There are risk factors you can control, including diet and exercise. You can slow—and some studies suggest even reverse—bone loss by tackling it head-on, but it takes time and a concerted effort. And it turns out that yoga and a plant-based diet may be your strongest allies.

Can Rehabilitation help Osteoporosis?

Rehabilitation serves any patient in need of outpatient physical therapy or occupational therapy services for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, low bone mineral density and fracture in order to affect positively the pathophysiology, impairments, functional limitations and disabilities of the disease as well as risk reduction, prevention and overall wellness.