Do you have Osteoporosis risk factors?
Here is a short assessment to take for yourself to assess how many risk factors for osteoporosis you may have:
How did you score?
If your answers are leaning towards greater risk (score of 5 or greater), please speak with your physician. Please also check out our other blogs that feature osteoporosis topics.
There are things you can change to reduce your risk of fracture and improve the quality of your framework. Diet and exercise are very important as well as not smoking. Our bone density is determined by the time we are 25 years old. If you have children or grandchildren, developing strong skeletal health through diet and the types of activities they participate in can make a big contribution as to whether they will have risk factors later in life.
If you have been diagnosed with this condition, there are many steps you can take to protect yourself. We have special programming available to help you! There are safe and unsafe ways to move and exercise if you have osteoporosis but we can help you get educated on how to protect yourself. Give us a call to see how we might help you!
