Osteoporosis is not a systemic or whole-body disease, but an indication of where your bones are aligned and the activity you engage in on a regular basis. Osteoporosis doesn’t mean your bone loss is occurring over your entire framework, it means there are a few key areas to where it is happening. Think you need to lift weights to build bone? Weight-bearing exercise is the prescription for maintaining and increasing bone density but it is often misinterpreted as “you should lift weights.” We love the positive effects of weight lifting but it is a poor contributor of bone density to your hips and spine where we need it most. “Weight-bearing” means having the strength to carry your spine, head, and torso directly over your hip bones. The excessive forward curvature of your spine is a contributing factor to low bone density, not a cause. You can fix this!

In this Strong Bones, Strong Bodies class, we’ll focus on exercises that release the muscle tension that pulls your head forward and promotes excessive upper spine curvature. Then we’ll engage and strengthen the posterior muscles necessary to help restore your spine to its natural upright alignment. In most cases, osteoporosis and osteopenia are activity and alignment related not age-related. Learn how you can make your everyday movements into bone strengthening activities and stop bone loss for good.