TSAOG Orthopaedics & Spine
How to Prevent Osteoporosis
Nutrition and exercise are key to preventing osteoporosis. Dr. Alan Hibberd, board certified orthopedic surgeon with TSAOG Orthopaedics, recommends Vitamin D, calcium and strengthening and weight bearing exercise to help prevent osteoporosis. To learn more about TSAOG Orthopaedics, Dr. Hibberd, and osteoporosis prevention at https://www.tsaog.com. To schedule an appointment with a board certified orthopedic surgeon, call TSAOG Orthopaedics at (210) 804-5400.
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may is osteoporosis month so what better than to have dr alan hibbard he's an orthopedic surgeon with baptist health systems and san antonio orthopedic group here with us today how are you doctor very nice thank you well good to have you so tell us what is osteoporosis well osteoporosis is a disorder in which your bones start losing their density now just to go just for a bit of background your bones are alive they're active uh and as you live your body your bones are breaking down they're rebuilding themselves and in childhood of course you're building more than you're losing most people max out their bone density around age 30 and then there's a steady decline usually lose about 10 percent per decade except for women when women go through menopause that rate speeds up very rapidly and so that's why osteoporosis is more of a problem for women okay now in your experience is that what you've seen it mostly affects women or who's most at risk for osteoporosis claudia that's a very good question as i mentioned most of the time this is a problem with women but there are a lot of things that you can do to change that what's important for your bones is their bone metabolism calcium and in particular vitamin d so usually what we do to work on is to make sure that the nutrients are there for your bone so they can remain healthy and to eliminate or at least minimize the the slow decline that you have over over over time okay so some advice for when it comes to nutrition you mentioned vitamin d and other things that are important to prevent osteoporosis what do we have here and are these some of the products that could possibly help us be healthy exactly uh what you want to do is eat uh and consume things that are are heavy in those kind of things like calcium you get an orange juice in particular dairy products whether it be like yogurt or cheese or milk green leafy vegetables are important like spinach bok choy broccoli those kind of things very important but i must say the most important thing in addition what your body does to get that calcium to go into your bones you have to exercise if you just eat the food and sit on your couch it's not going to help you exercise is the key okay so for busy women and busy busy people all around what kind of exercises should we be doing on a daily basis and how much time because sometimes it's kind of hard to fit it into our busy schedules well that's true now one of the problems we have in our culture is what we call the sitting disease our ancestors sat only probably to eat and lay down at night it's asleep but most of the time they were very busy the average american probably spends three fifths of his day sitting that's about nine hours a day so part of our jobs involve a lot of sitting but we need to change that around if you could incorporate some kind of physical activity maybe go for a walk at lunch take the stairs during the course of your day as our as a as a bit of a break and then of course there'd be uh exercises for strengthening you can just walk do yoga for stretching weighted exercises for strength those kind of things are all very important okay so nutrition exercise are two key elements to prevent osteoporosis of course not all the time but it could at least help you prevent it the more active you can be the better um probably for every hour you every hour you spend sitting you probably should spend an hour or so exercising so the exercise is the key is very very important okay and some symptoms to watch out for well one of the problems with osteoporosis and that's why we're uh so interested in getting the information out is it's a silent disorder you don't know that's happening until something catastrophic happens like a fracture now um what we would concern ourselves as what we call fragility fractures your bones should be solid enough that if you fall from a standing height you shouldn't break anything should you have a simple fall and a fracture and something breaks we need to look at your skeleton so that's very important we just don't treat your fracture now we send you to get studies and see if you're you could be one of those people whose bones are not as dense as they should be i see so doctor in your experience also do you see what kind of ages do you see when you treat patients is it something that can affect anybody usually starting at age 50 and one of the things we concern ourselves with if you have one of these fractures you have a very high risk of having another one you probably have a four times risk of having another one and fifty percent chance of having another fracture within the next three years if you let the process go on uh too far what can happen is you can break your bones just by coughing or sitting down hard or even sneezing okay well thank you for all your information today dr hibbard all right so now you know it nutrition and exercise will help prevent osteoporosis baptist health systems is celebrating osteoporosis month 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Dr. Alan Hibberd discusses #osteoporosisprevention on San Antonio Living.