BOOK PUSHES BONE SAFETY.Byline: Daily News SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - The owner of a local Pilates exercise studio has written a guide for women that includes advice and exercise programs for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis osteoporosis (ŏs'tēō'pərō`sĭs), disorder in which the normal replenishment of old bone tissue is severely disrupted, resulting in weakened bones and increased risk of fracture; osteopenia . ``OsteoPilates: Increase Bone Density, Reduce Fracture Risk, Look and Feel Great!'' by Karena Lineback includes guidelines for movement, diet, medication and an exercise program, designed to be safe for women with osteoporosis, based on the exercise philosophy of Joseph Pilates Joseph Hubertus Pilates (1880 – 1967) was the inventor of the Pilates physical fitness method. Biography Joseph H. Pilates was born in Mönchengladbach Germany, in 1880, to parents of Greek and German ancestry. , who died in 1967 at the age of 87. As a rehabilitation rehabilitation: see physical therapy. specialist, Lineback noticed that many women were attempting exercises that twist the spine and actually cause bone fractures. She wrote ``OsteoPilates'' with guidelines for safe exercise movements in an effort to reduce the fracture rate in osteoporosis sufferers. Women avoid sit-ups, toe touches A toe touch is an unethical journalistic practice by which a journalist makes a short, often momentary trip to a city in order to justify a dateline being added to a news story. , side-kicks and twisting under her guidelines, which stress the need for perfect posture throughout the exercise routine. Exercises are designed to help women in their early 30s avoid osteoporosis and to help women who already have the disease avoid fractures. ``Women know they should avoid icy surfaces and rugs that aren't secured, but they don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. that the very thing they are doing to treat their osteoporosis, exercise, is what could be causing their next ``OsteoPilates'' was published by New Page Books and is available at book stores nationwide or from online booksellers for $16.99. |
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