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Building Better Bone Health With Osteostrong, from Santa Barbara Independent, Active Aging Special Section, July 30, 2020.<\/p><\/div>\n

WELLNESS STUDIO\u00a0FIGHTS AGAINST OSTEOPOROSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Almost everyone knows about the increased dangers\u00a0of falling and breaking bones as we age.\u00a0But traditional workout programs never really\u00a0focused on enhancing bone strength to aid in the fight\u00a0against osteoporosis.<\/p>\n

OsteoStrong<\/a>, a five-year-old wellness studio franchise\u00a0operation owned by Yvonne and Jim Parsons,\u00a0who originally brought Curves for Women<\/a> to town,\u00a0hopes to change that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe help people with issues with bone health,\u201d said\u00a0Yvonne, explaining that people stop producing the\u00a0mineral and tissue that make our bones strong after we\u00a0turn 30. \u201cIf you\u2019re playing tennis or you\u2019re doing high impact\u00a0sports \u2014 hiking, running, tennis, those kinds\u00a0of things\u2014generally people maintain their bone mass.\u00a0But as we age, especially for women, we start losing\u00a0it when we start menopause because\u00a0our body leaches the calcium out of our\u00a0bones.\u201d<\/p>\n

That leads to osteoporosis or osteopenia,\u00a0with half of all women and\u00a0a third of all men over 50 eventually\u00a0breaking a bone. \u201cIt\u2019s the third leading\u00a0cause of death after 65,\u201d said Parsons\u00a0ominously. \u201cForty percent of people\u00a0who have a fracture will be staying\u00a0in a nursing home after 65, and 20 percent will never\u00a0walk again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Developed by biomechanics engineer John Jaquish,\u00a0OsteoStrong works on the principle of \u201costeogenic\u201d\u00a0loading<\/a>. Using super-resistance machines that cover\u00a0every section of the body\u2014a chest press, leg press,\u00a0core pull, and skeleton-stressing vertical lift that resemble\u00a0weight machines and feature feedback monitors<\/p>\n

OsteoStrong clients come in once a week, briefly\u00a0stand on vibration platforms to warm up, then exert\u00a030 seconds of all-out force at each workout station. A\u00a0session is designed to take approximately 10 minutes\u00a0from start to finish.<\/p>\n

Parsons offered a few analogies to explain how it\u00a0works. \u201cIf you go into a dark room, how long does it\u00a0take for your pupil to enlarge? If you start to put your\u00a0hand on a fire, how quickly does your body respond by\u00a0pulling it away?\u201d she asked. \u201cIt just is like a nanosecond,\u00a0so it only takes five seconds to hit the degree that you\u00a0need to for the axial loading when you\u2019re doing it on\u00a0the equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curious to try it out? An initial visit is free.\u00a0osteostrong.me<\/a><\/p>\n

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Originally published in the Santa Barbara Independent on July 30, 2020. To view the Active Aging Guide to Senior Life, Seen Through a Pandemic Lens, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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