Osteoporosis Physical Therapy

I suffer from advanced osteoporosis and kyphosis. I just started PT and I would like to have a little technical understanding of how the exercises that I do help. I would like to find a website that describes some of the exercises and how they help. I would also like to see patterns and how the myafasia massage therapist manipulates the PT myofasia to relax. I was looking for such a site, but can not find one. Can you help me? Thank you.

Firstly, for an example of some exercises you can click on this link and click on the link for the slideshow "for years.
Just be warned that all these exercises will be for everyone. Be sure to ask your PT exercises that are particularly beneficial to you.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/osteopo ...

Regarding how the exercises work, there are two main ways we can look at these exercises. The first are those who are "stretching" exercises. These exercises work to stretch the soft tissues become tight around the spine because of kyphosis. The main target muscles, tendons, fascia, but both. As we apply a pulling force, the collagen fibers begin to orient parallell to each other ... as the section is to support, fluids and "proteoglycan" are "crushed" out of tissues, allowing them to reach the point where some of the shorter will be longer. This process will be reversed slightly once the load is removed, thus stretching should be done several times a day ... not just once or twice or you'll never make progress.

Then we can discuss "strengthening" exercises, including those that use weights or are "weight bearing exercise, like walking, low-impact aerobics, etc. These exercises be a force through the bone . Bone has the ability to set more bones in areas where constraints are applied ... Therefore, it actually seeks to "strengthen" the bone.

Regarding myofascial, remember that it is stretched to the exercise ... Not that I think it makes a difference. I do not think that the fascia has a lot to do with osteoporosis. It is a metabolic disorder of bone loss. The side effects are musculoskeletal, and it is the muscles and tendons that are actually shorter (there is a real loss of the "sarcomere", or unit of muscle cell that can be demonstrated on histological studies) . The evidence for myofascial techniques or the fascia still contributes to this problem are rare. Personally, I think is a hoax news myofasical Buch no reliable scientific evidence. I do not want to waste your time with it ... although to be honest ... he "feels" good ... he does not "really do anything.

Make sure you go on any exercises with your therapist before trying your own. They probably already have a program in their mind of what you should do.

Good luck.

ADDENDUM: sorry, I do not think I could find one like that ... it is very technical and generally not very "patient friendly" ... but if you're prone to do, I google "Wolff's Law" (which explains how stress increases bone mass) and "creep and hysteresis in collagen fibers (which explain how elongation of tissues occur)

Like most of us are not professionals and is a very technical question, you can not get a good answer here. Physical Therapy requires a mastery, which is not many of us here! We also do not know exactly which exercises the PT is to have you do.

You can ask your physical therapist this question. He / she may have literature or MA.