Efficacy of a Self-Management Program for Osteoporotic Subjects

Abstract

It is determined that the self-management class led to improvements in functional, balance, and life-quality outcomes and to reductions in pain perception.

Impaired Ability to Perform the Sit-to-Stand Task in Osteoporotic Women

“…However, in some studies in which the sit-to-stand test was applied to elderly individuals, the results regarding the time spent for performing the tasks are close to those obtained in the present study (Whitney et al, 2005;Aslan et al, 2008;Schaubert & Bohannon, 2005), which suggests that the decrease of the movement velocity is associated to many factors of aging process and not to the bone mineral density (BMD) directly. The spent time to perform the five-chair sit-to-stand test in women aged 65 years or older with osteopenia (Chyu et al, 2010;Alp et al, 2007) was similar to the present study. In another study conducted with osteoporotic women (Alp et al, 2007), the sit-to-stand test was performed 10 times as quickly as possible, and the values obtained was approximately twice the time spent by women in our study (in our study they performed the sit-to-stand movements five times consecutively as quickly as possible).…”

“…The spent time to perform the five-chair sit-to-stand test in women aged 65 years or older with osteopenia (Chyu et al, 2010;Alp et al, 2007) was similar to the present study. In another study conducted with osteoporotic women (Alp et al, 2007), the sit-to-stand test was performed 10 times as quickly as possible, and the values obtained was approximately twice the time spent by women in our study (in our study they performed the sit-to-stand movements five times consecutively as quickly as possible). Lindsey et al, 2005 did not observe a correlation between sit-to-stand test performance and BMD of any skeletal site in older women, which is in agreement with our findings, since we did not find differences in time spent during the sit-to-stand test between groups.…”

A systematic review of interventions by healthcare professionals on community-dwelling postmenopausal women with osteoporosis

“…A majority of studies extracted were conducted in the USA [10][11][12][13][14][15], Canada [16][17][18][19][20][21], and Europe [22][23][24][25][26][27][28], with a few studies from New Zealand [29] and Asia [30][31][32][33]. One of the studies formed part of a multi-center coordinated project in 21 European countries [24], while 15 other studies were conducted in single sites [10-13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26, 28, 31, 32], and nine in multiple sites within the same country [14,16,19,22,24,27,29,30,33].…”

“…Of the 24 studies, seven assessed interventions by physiotherapists [14,20,21,23,28,31,32], six by physicians [17,18,24,25,27,30], seven by nurses [10-13, 15, 22, 29], three involved multi-disciplinary teams consisting of physicians, nurses, dietitians, and physiotherapists working together [16,19,26], and one was by dietitians [33]. All studies compared intervention with a control group.…”

The Effect of Exercise on Bone Mineral Density, Bone Markers and Postural Stability in Subjects with Osteoporosis

“…The number of falls in those exercising dropped, though insignificantly. Improvement in balance and quality of life after five weeks of exercising was recorded by Alp et al (2007). Multifactor preventive and individually-focused balance programmes may reduce the risk of falls in individuals by 25 to 30% (Dargent-Molina, 2004).…”