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Risk of Fracture Cut Down by Exercise
Researchers found that exercise is apparently linked with long-term effects on balance and gait (manner of walking), and may help protect high-risk, elderly women from hip fractures, according to a report
"Falls are responsible for at least 90 percent of all hip fractures. Hip fractures place the greatest demands on resources and have the greatest effect on patients because they are associated with high mortality rates and increased morbidity," the authors write as background in the article.
Dr. Raija Korpelainen, of Oulu Deaconess Institute, Oulu, Finland, and colleagues performed an extended follow-up of 160 women who participated in a randomised trial aimed at reducing risk factors for fractures in elderly women with osteopenia (a reduction in bone mass, or low levels of bone calcium).
Of the 160 women who participated in the randomised control trial, 84 were assigned to an exercise group, while the remaining 76 were placed in the control group.
Women in the exercise group attended supervised balance, leg strength and impact training sessions once a week for a 6-month period from October to March each year from 1998 to 2001.
The average observation time for both groups was 7.1 years.
During the follow-up time, 17 women in the exercise group were hospital-treated for fractures, while 23 fractures occurred in the control group.
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