Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/n1nANeZkIcg   From the “use it or lose it department,” a University of Buffalo study credits physical activity with lowering the incidence of nasty hip and extremity fractures.  The investigators focused their interest on more than 77,000 post-menopausal women followed over a 14 year period.   Clocking at least 35 minutes a day of recreational and ordinary household movement triggers an 18% reduced risk of hip fracture.  The benefit increases with a greater intensity and duration of activity, but any and all activities put healthy stresses on your bones which in turn strengthens them.   Women and men, the young as well as our seasoned citizens do benefit….. so get moving and keep moving on a regular basis.   Michael J. LaMonte, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Joseph C. Larson, Xiaodan Mai, John A. Robbins, Meryl S. LeBoff, Zhao Chen, Rebecca D. Jackson, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Judith K. Ockene, Kathleen M. Hovey, Jane A. Cauley. Association of Physical Activity and Fracture Risk Among Postmenopaus