A study published in the professional journal Journal of Bone and mineral research, indicates that doing regular exercises that impact the hip (such as small jumps on a foot, for example) can help counteract aging bones.
Researchers invited 34 men over the age of 65 to jump on one leg, two minutes a day, for a year. They always had to jump on the same leg so that the other served as a reference for the measurements. They showed that the bone mass had increased by more than 7% in the hip which was mobilized by the jumps. These results have been shown in several parts of the hip, including the thinnest areas, which are more at risk of fracture in the event of a fall.
“Hip fractures are a major public health issue in older people. However, we know that exercising can improve bone strength. The participants in this study therefore learned to do small jumping exercises with variations in movement, so that the hip bone was stressed and strained in different directions, ”explains Dr. Sarah Allison of the National Center. for sport and medicine from Loughborough (Great Britain).
The measurements, taken using new techniques from computed tomography, showed clear differences between hips that exercised and those that did not. In contrast, this study only included men. Dr. Allison cannot say at this time that the results would be the same in women.
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