Dr Sophia Nimphius, Senior Lecturer in the School of Exercise and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University, discusses how certain activities that require rapid movement or use of our muscular strength, when performed during or prior to adolescence can influence the shape and strength of our bones and these changes may have a lasting effect!
Lifelong bone health of individuals is critically determined by our bone development during adolescence when we lay down the skeletal foundation that is protective and persists in our bone health for our entire lifetime. Therefore, the information gathered from the current project will provide specific understandings of the underlying physical fitness attributes that contribute to the development of bone strength during adolescence. As declining bone mass and architecture in later life is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, strategies to prevent or delay such issues are very important to the health and wellness of the population.
Our initial cross-sectional research has already provided extraordinarily positive support for the idea that activities like sprinting, jumping and improving or muscular strength directly influences the “shaping of our bone”, allowing for a “stronger and better built bone” when performed during those critical foundation years of bone growth around adolescence.
The proposed project has implications for future recommendations on activities to improve bone strength during adolescence by placing even greater emphasis on neuromotor fitness during adolescence. Overall, this research is a critical preliminary step in a series of studies required to determine the most effective and efficient ways to maximise our long-term bone health.
See Dr Nimphius's profile: www.ecu.edu.au/schools/exercis...
29 июл 2015
