Osteoporosis
Strengthening Your Bones
What’s osteoporosis?
The word Osteoporosis means spongy (porous) bone. Bone is made up of minerals, especially calcium salts, sure collectively by way of sturdy collagen fibers. Our bones have a thick, outer shell (called cortical or compact bone) which is without difficulty visible on X-rays. Inner this, there’s a softer, spongy mesh of bone (trabecular bone) which has a honeycomb-like structure.

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How do we treat the Osteoporosis:
Sportmedacupuncture can offer a variety of proven therapies to treat the Osteoporosis including:
- Japanese Acupuncture – Uses the thorough palpation in order to find neuromuscular lines which are in metabolic deficiencies or distress. Once the pathology is found, very superficial needle insertions are made in order to restore proper flow in these lines.
- Balance method of Dr Tan Acupuncture – uses distal areas (wrists, head etc.) to eliminate the local pain.
- Structural Acupucncture - addresses misalignment between principal anatomical structures , such as: sacrum , iliac bones, spine, neck, scull.
- Electro Acupuncture – helps to improve the proper electrical charge of damaged cells , allowing their healthy regeneration.
- Laser Acupuncture – Nourishes the damaged tissues with red and infrared light, activating cellular activities and intercellular exchange, improving blood and lymph circulation.
- Chinese manual therapy Tuina – Relieves pain by using manual techniques . It uses mobilizations to realign the body. Passive joint movements are used to restore function to muscle and joints.
Bone is a dwelling, lively tissue that constantly renews itself. Vintage bone tissue is broken down via cells known as osteoclasts and is replaced by new bone fabric produced through cells known as osteoblasts. The balance between the breakdown of vintage bone and the formation of recent bone modifications at unique stages of our lives. In childhood and adolescence, new bones are fashioned in no time. This allows our bones to develop bigger and stronger (denser). Bone density reaches its height through our mid-to-overdue-20s. After this, new bone is produced at approximately the identical charge as older bone is broken down. This means the person’s skeleton is completely renewed over a period of 7–10 years.
In the end, from the age of about forty, the bone starts off evolving to be damaged down extra faster than it’s replaced, so our bones slowly begin to lose their density. Osteoporosis is an international high prevalence of chronic metabolic disorder with extreme incapacity-adjusted existence years dropping. Acupuncture is used to treat osteoporosis widely in China and different international locations despite the fact that the evidence on effectiveness cannot supply a positive answer. The intention of this systematic overview protocol is to appraise the efficacy and protection of acupuncture for osteoporosis and even for many more diseases.
Symptoms –
Osteoporosis often has no signs. The primary sign that you may have it’s far when you break a bone in a tremendously minor fall or coincidence (known as a low-impact fracture). Fractures are maximum probably within the hip, backbone, or wrist. But no need to worry, Sportmed Acupuncture is just a phone call away for your services.
Whichever technique will be used to help you to relieve the pain, you can be sure all are them are: