A weight-bearing, water-based exercise program for osteopenic women: its impact on bone, functional fitness, and well-being

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
G BravoP Gaulin

Abstract

To evaluate the effects of a weight-bearing, water-based, exercise program designed for women with low bone mass. A test-retest cross-sectional, prospective study. Community-dwelling women from a Canadian city. Seventy-seven postmenopausal women, 50 to 70 years of age, with spinal or femoral bone density below the fracture threshold. Subjects exercised in a pool with waist-high water for 60 minutes, 3 days a week, over a 12-month period. Forty minutes of each session were devoted to successive jumps and muscular exercises designed to promote bone accretion, strength, and endurance. Spinal and femoral bone mineral density (BMD) measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, functional fitness (flexibility, coordination, agility, strength/endurance, and cardiorespiratory endurance) assessed with the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance battery, and psychological states evaluated with Dupuy's General Well-Being Schedule. Spinal BMD decreased significantly (p < .001), whereas there was no change in femoral neck BMD (p = .90). Four of the parameters chosen to assess functional fitness, namely, flexibility, agility, strength/endurance, and cardiorespiratory endurance, were affected positively by the e...Continue Reading

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