Looking for site describing physical treatment exercises for Kyphosis due to Osteoporosis?
I have advanced Osteoporosis and Kyphosis. I've just started PT and would like to own a somewhat technical understanding of how the exercises I do help. I would approaching to find a web site that describes some of the exercises and how they help. I would also like to see diagrams of the myafasia and how squeeze from a PT therapist manipulates the myofasia to relax. I've been looking for such a site but cannot find one. Can you aid? Thank you.
Answers: First, for an EXAMPLE of some exercises, you can click on this link and click on the link to the "slide show" for exercises.
Just be warned that not adjectives these exercises will be for everyone. Be sure to ask your PT which exercises are particularly beneficial for you.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/osteopo...
As far as HOW the exercises work, there are two main ways we can look at these exercises. The first are the ones that are "stretching" exercises. These exercises work to extend soft tissues that have become tight around the spine due to the kyphosis. These primarily target muscles, tendons, but fascia as well. As one applies a stretching force, the collagen fibers start to orient parallell to each other...as the stretch is sustain, fluids and "proteoglycans" are "squished" away from the tissues, allowing them to conquer the point where some of the shorter ones will lengthen. This process will reverse itself somewhat once the load is removed, that`s why stretching needs to be done several times a day...not just once or twice or you will never brand name progress.
Next, we can examine "strengthening" exercises including those that use weights or are "weight-bearing exercises" such as walking, low impact aerobics, etc. These exercises put a force across the bone. Bone has the ability to lay down more bone in areas where on earth stresses are applied...therefore, it actually seeks to "strengthen" the bone.
As far as myofascia is concerned, remember that it is anyone stretched with exercise...not that I think it makes any difference. I do not believe that the fascia have much to do with osteoporosis. It is a metabolic disorder of bone loss. The musculoskeletal effects are secondary, and it is the muscles and tendons that are actually shortened (there is an actual loss of the "sarcomere", or cellular component of the muscle that can be demonstrated on histological studies). The evidence for myofascial techniques or that the fascia even contributes to the problem is scant. Personally, I think myofasical release is a buch of hooey without any reliable solid proof. I wouldn't waste your time with it...although to be quite honest...it "feels" upright...it just doesnt' really do anything.
Be sure to go over any exercises with your shrink before trying them on your own. They probably already have a program in their mind of what you should be doing.
Good luck.
ADDENDUM: sorry, I don't expect I could find one like that...it gets highly logical and generally not very "patient friendly"...but if you are inclined to do so, I would google "Wolff's law" (which explains how stress increases bone mass) and "creep and hysteresis within collagen fibers " (which explain how lengthening of tissues occur)
Since most of us are not medical professionals and since this is a highly technical question, you may not obtain a good Answer here. Physical Therapy requires a Master's degree, which not many of us own here! We also don't know exactly which exercises your PT is having you do.
You may want to ask your Physical Therapist this question. He/she may have literature or may know how to direct you to a website.
Good luck on your PT. I have had PT for a bulging cervical disc. PT hurts, but in the long run it help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyphosis
http://www.sogc.org/guidelines/public/15...
Myofascial trigger point myafasia.
Areas of focal muscle tenderness and spasm, usually precipitated by a central cause of symptoms e.g. lumbar or cervical spines.
http://www.irishpainsociety.com/administ...
http://www.humanprinciples.com/articles/...
I appear to have located loads, however how they manipulate, sorry guess that is a trade surreptitious?
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Answers: First, for an EXAMPLE of some exercises, you can click on this link and click on the link to the "slide show" for exercises.
Just be warned that not adjectives these exercises will be for everyone. Be sure to ask your PT which exercises are particularly beneficial for you.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/osteopo...
As far as HOW the exercises work, there are two main ways we can look at these exercises. The first are the ones that are "stretching" exercises. These exercises work to extend soft tissues that have become tight around the spine due to the kyphosis. These primarily target muscles, tendons, but fascia as well. As one applies a stretching force, the collagen fibers start to orient parallell to each other...as the stretch is sustain, fluids and "proteoglycans" are "squished" away from the tissues, allowing them to conquer the point where some of the shorter ones will lengthen. This process will reverse itself somewhat once the load is removed, that`s why stretching needs to be done several times a day...not just once or twice or you will never brand name progress.
Next, we can examine "strengthening" exercises including those that use weights or are "weight-bearing exercises" such as walking, low impact aerobics, etc. These exercises put a force across the bone. Bone has the ability to lay down more bone in areas where on earth stresses are applied...therefore, it actually seeks to "strengthen" the bone.
As far as myofascia is concerned, remember that it is anyone stretched with exercise...not that I think it makes any difference. I do not believe that the fascia have much to do with osteoporosis. It is a metabolic disorder of bone loss. The musculoskeletal effects are secondary, and it is the muscles and tendons that are actually shortened (there is an actual loss of the "sarcomere", or cellular component of the muscle that can be demonstrated on histological studies). The evidence for myofascial techniques or that the fascia even contributes to the problem is scant. Personally, I think myofasical release is a buch of hooey without any reliable solid proof. I wouldn't waste your time with it...although to be quite honest...it "feels" upright...it just doesnt' really do anything.
Be sure to go over any exercises with your shrink before trying them on your own. They probably already have a program in their mind of what you should be doing.
Good luck.
ADDENDUM: sorry, I don't expect I could find one like that...it gets highly logical and generally not very "patient friendly"...but if you are inclined to do so, I would google "Wolff's law" (which explains how stress increases bone mass) and "creep and hysteresis within collagen fibers " (which explain how lengthening of tissues occur)
Since most of us are not medical professionals and since this is a highly technical question, you may not obtain a good Answer here. Physical Therapy requires a Master's degree, which not many of us own here! We also don't know exactly which exercises your PT is having you do.
You may want to ask your Physical Therapist this question. He/she may have literature or may know how to direct you to a website.
Good luck on your PT. I have had PT for a bulging cervical disc. PT hurts, but in the long run it help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyphosis
http://www.sogc.org/guidelines/public/15...
Myofascial trigger point myafasia.
Areas of focal muscle tenderness and spasm, usually precipitated by a central cause of symptoms e.g. lumbar or cervical spines.
http://www.irishpainsociety.com/administ...
http://www.humanprinciples.com/articles/...
I appear to have located loads, however how they manipulate, sorry guess that is a trade surreptitious?
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