It is estimated that 54 million Americans have osteoporosis or osteopenia (low bone mineral density.) Additionally one in two women and up to one in four men, age 50 and older, will break a bone due to osteoporosis at some…
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Osteoporosis, Underdiagnosed and Undertreated in Men
Tagged with: BStrong4Life, magnesium, Men, Osteoporosis, Osteoporosis Prevention, Osteoporosis treatment, Vitamin D
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Posted in Uncategorized
Osteoporosis related fracture
A recent study found that osteoporosis related fractures are the major cause of hospitalization in older women. This study, published on December 3, 2014 in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, included women who where aged 55 years an older at time of…
Tagged with: BStrong4Life, Geneva BStrong4Life, Geneva Chiropractic, Geneva Chiropractor, Health Care Costs, Hospitalization for fracture, preventing osteoporosis, Spine Care, Staker Chiropractic, treating osteoporosis
Posted in BStrong4Life, Exercise and Fitness, Healthcare Policy and Politics, Injury Prevention, Osteoporosis
Posted in BStrong4Life, Exercise and Fitness, Healthcare Policy and Politics, Injury Prevention, Osteoporosis
Innovative Technologies to Reduce Fall Risk
As we age there are many things that tend to happen to our health and well being, one of these is worsening balance. As our balance worsens the risk to suffer a fall which can then result in a fracture,…
Tagged with: balance, balance training, BStrong4Life, Fall Prevention, Geneva BStrong4Life, Geneva Chiropractor, Power Plate, Spine Care, whole body vibration
Posted in Exercise and Fitness, Injury Prevention
Posted in Exercise and Fitness, Injury Prevention
Treating Dowager’s Hump
The posture most associated with aging, Dowager’s Hump can be known as Buffalo Hump, Hunchback, and the technical/medical term hyperkyphosis. Any way you call it treating Dowager’s hump can be important for your health and physical well being. For the…
Tagged with: Back Pain, back pain Geneva IL, BStrong4Life, Buffalo Hump, Chiropractic, chiropractic biophysics, chiropractor, Dowgers Hump, Geneva BStrong4Life, Geneva Chiropractor, Hyerkyphosis, kyphosis, Low Back Pain, Low bone mineral density, old person posture, Osteopenia, Osteoporosis, Osteoporosis Prevention, Posture research, Posture treatment
Posted in Back Pain, BStrong4Life, Exercise and Fitness, Neck Pain, Wellness
Posted in Back Pain, BStrong4Life, Exercise and Fitness, Neck Pain, Wellness
Osteoporosis Awareness Month 2014; part 3
The best way to reduce your risk for osteoporosis is to make healthy lifestyle choices. Those choices can be easy for some and hard for others, this all depends on what you have to “give up” in order to…
Osteoporosis Awareness Month 2014; part 2
Osteoporosis Awareness Month 2014; part 2 Osteoporosis is serious and becoming far too common. Each year the risk of suffering a fracture from osteoporosis is greater than the combined risk of suffering a heart attack, stroke, or breast cancer in…
Osteoporosis drug may increase risk for Atrial Fibrillation
Osteoporosis drug may increase risk for Atrial Fibrillation, says a recent study in the American Journal of Cardiology. The authors of this study suggest that the FDA should re-consider the atrial fibrillation (AF) risk with certain osteoporosis drugs.This study looks…
Tagged with: Actonel, bisphosphonate, Boniva, BStrong4Life, Chiropractic, Fosamax, Low bone mineral density, Osteopenia, Osteoporosis, osteoporosis exercise, osteoporosis medication, Osteoporosis Prevention, Vitamin D, weight bearing exercise for osteoporosis
Posted in BStrong4Life, Osteoporosis, Wellness
Posted in BStrong4Life, Osteoporosis, Wellness
Vibration Exercise to Improve Balance
One thing we do with BStrong4Life is to use vibration exercise to improve balance. While our primary focus is on building muscular and bone strength, improving balance is intertwined in the BStrong4Life program. There is no current published research on…
Tagged with: balance, balance training, BS4L, BStrong4Life, Geneva BStrong4Life, Improved Walking, Power Plate, strength training, Vibration Exercise, WBV, whole body vibration
Posted in BStrong4Life, Exercise and Fitness, Wellness
Posted in BStrong4Life, Exercise and Fitness, Wellness
Vibration training builds bone in young men and women
I have posted quite a bit about whole body vibration training and the BStrong4Life system and its effects on building bone. Most of the studies on this have been on older, specifically postmenopausal, women becuase they are at the greatest…
Tagged with: BStrong4Life, building bone density, building bone density in young adults, Low bone mineral density, Osteopenia, osteopenia exercise, Osteopenia treatment, Osteoporosis, osteoporosis exercise, Osteoporosis Prevention, Osteoporosis research, Osteoporosis treatment, reduce your risk for osteoporosis, strength training for osteoporosis, vibration training, whole body vibration
Posted in BStrong4Life, Exercise and Fitness, Osteoporosis
Posted in BStrong4Life, Exercise and Fitness, Osteoporosis
bioDensity Bone Density Study
In the December 2013 the developers of bioDensity presented a paper at the International Osteoporosis Foundation Regional 4th Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting. This Paper was the findings of a small study the bioDensity developers did to look at the influence bioDensity…