Osteoporosis
Prevention and treatment
The presentation covers:
- Definition of osteoporosis
- Who cares?
- Risk factors
- How does it happen?
- How do we manage it?
- Medication
- Calcium
- Vitamin D
- Exercise
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About the Presenter
Belinda Beck is a Professor in the Griffith University School of Allied Health Sciences (Gold Coast, QLD) and the Menzies Health Institute Queensland. She leads the Griffith University Bone Densitometry Research Laboratory and is Director of The Bone Clinic, a novel translational research facility and clinical practice providing supervised exercise for patients with osteoporosis. She graduated from The University of Queensland (BHMS[Ed]) and the University of Oregon (MSc and PhD) and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Stanford University School of Medicine (CA, USA). Her work, primarily related to the effects of mechanical loading on bone, has involved both animal and human models, from basic to clinical research. Her particular focuses have been exercise interventions across the lifespan for the prevention of osteoporotic fracture, and the management of bone stress injuries in athletes and military recruits. Important recent projects have included the LIFTMOR and LIFTMOR-M trials; results of which have shown that high intensity exercise is not only effective but safe as an intervention for older men and women with low to very low bone mass.
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