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Tae do exercise used for maintenance and building of bone mineral density improves daily life

Many studies have documented that exercise can be effective in the maintenance and building of bone mineral density in postmenopausal women. 43 women suffering from osteopaenia and osteoporosis were included in the so called Tae do basic exercise program. Tae do exercise program is originally developed by Dr. Dalibor Krpan. It is founded on Korean traditional marshal art Taekwondo. The basic idea of this type of exercise is to connect the intermittent muscular contraction with mind focused energy. The type of the movement is performed by focused force stimulating the bone on the specific way with preventive and curable effect on osteopaenia and osteoporosis. Tae do exercise are divided in basic program that is suitable for almost all osteoporosis patient and more demanding advanced exercises. Medium age of the investigated sample was 65.6 years, medium age of menopausis (or quitting hormonal substitution) was 48.2 years. Medium BMD L1–L4 vertebrae was 0.755, T score) 2.6, medium BMD of the hip was 0.664, T score) 1.8. Duration of performing Tae do was in average was 5 months. All the participants exercised 4 times a week, 2 times guided by trained person, 2• times a week at home using literature and repeating previously learned motions. Patients were asked to score quality of life, severity of pain in the bones and mobility with grade from 1 to 10. As expected, we found negative correlation among the quality of life and severity of pain in the bones (correlation factor) 0.3) and significant positive correlation among the quality of life and mobility (correlation factor 0.5). When analyzing all women there was no correlation among their mobility and duration of exercise. While analyzing women that exercised Tae do more than 6 months slightly positive correlation was found (correlation factor 0, 3), and when we included women who were exercising more than 12 months a positive correlation was stronger (correlation factor 0.4). Cochrane Database review showed some evidence that exercise is effective at one year or longer on slowing bone loss, and our data fit into. The benefit of Tae do on mobility resembles previous reports that show a positive influence of exercise training for elderly in increasing physical activity in daily life. The results showed above are as the part of the bigger study only preliminary ones. Influence of Tae do on quality of life, osteoporosis and frequency of bone fractures is going to be described in follow up reports.

osteoporosis; exercise

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