Tips on Osteoporosis from the American Chiropractic Society

After the previous post on the 91 year old female marathon runner, this is a post about a condition that is very common to that age group and to woman...osteoporosis. I have posted the results of newer outcome studies that show that the bone density drugs do not reduce the outcome of future fracture risk in people with the more common osteopenia (the less severe stage of loss of bone density).
Here is information from the American Chiropractic Society concerning the risk factors, prevention, and management of osteoporosis.
Did you know that weight bearing exercise like walking is a very good way to build bone mass and prevent bone loss?

http://gethealthyblog.org/osteoporosis/

A retrospective analysis of vertebral body fractures following epidural steroid injections.

Cannot seem to get off the topic of epidural steroid injections. Just ran across this study from last year's Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. It showed that each epidural steroid injection increased the risk of vertebral bone fracture by 21%! This is much higher than previously thought.
Did you know that steroids including cortisone and predisone cause bone loss and decreased bone density?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23780532