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. 2009 Jul;1(4):341-6.
doi: 10.1177/1941738109338823.

Bone health: part 2, physical activity

Sarah L Manske  1 , Caeley R Lorincz, Ron F Zernicke
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Bone health: part 2, physical activity

Sarah L Manske et al. Sports Health. 2009 Jul.

Abstract

Mechanical loading is a crucial factor for maintaining skeletal health. Physical activities, exercise, and sports provide a wealth and variety of mechanical loads to bones, through muscle forces, ground reaction forces, and other contact or impact forces. Weightbearing activities can be effective exercises to enhance bone health-particularly, those that involve jumping and impact loads (with greater strain magnitudes, rates, and frequencies). Physical activity appears to be acutely beneficial for enhancing bone health in the early pubertal period and in older age, such as in postmenopausal women. In preparing this article, PubMed, Web of Science, and relevant edited books (English language) were reviewed from 1961 to present.

Keywords: bone health; mechanical loading; physical activity.

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