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VIDEO: Dr. Finkenberg – How Does Activity Contribute To Healthy Bones?

Dr. Finkenberg describes how staying active helps to maintain healthy bones.

Dr. Finkenberg:
In addition to taking the vitamins and minerals, I think it’s very important to be active. We found over the years that without doing weight-bearing type resistive exercises, the bones tend to lose their density. For women, particularly after they hit menopause, you do lose about a percent of your calcium every year, and so the goal is to build up that reserve of calcium before you hit menopause, and certainly the best way to do that is with exercise and activities before that time comes.

Once you do hit menopause, though, in addition to taking these medications, should they be warranted, it’s important to keep up the exercise because bone tends to form more density with regard to calcium with extra weight-bearing status.

About Dr. Finkenberg, M.D.
Dr. John Finkenberg has been in practice at Alvarado Hospital for 16 years. He completed his undergraduate and medical degree at UCLA. Following his orthopedic residency at Harbor/UCLA, he received fellowship training in Advanced Spinal Reconstruction Surgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Maryland.

Dr. Finkenberg’s great interest in the advancement of spinal surgery developed from 15 years as a spine consultant assisting with the creation of new technology and procedures. He is a primary investigator for multi-center national research studies and lectures around the world on current research projects.

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