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Osteoporosis Month: Everything You Need to Know

Osteoporosis Month: Everything You Need to Know May is Osteoporosis Awareness Month, which makes this a good time for a quick reminder about what osteoporosis is, what it can do, and who is at risk. It can be tempting to consider osteoporosis a women’s disease, one that specifically targets those who’ve been through menopause or are small-framed....

Spotlight on DOC Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine’s Bone Health Clinic

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Spotlight on DOC Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine’s Bone Health Clinic The professionals at DOC Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine are dedicated to the treatment of bone injuries, and they also work to help patients avoid those injuries through treatment plans that include exercise, physical therapy and overall bone health. “We started the bone health...

Nutrition and Bone Health: What you eat and drink matters

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Nutrition and Bone Health: What you eat and drink matters Most of us have been told from an early age to “drink milk for strong bones.” Turns out, that’s actually true… at least in part. Calcium plays an important role in supporting bone health, and most Americans get the majority of their calcium from dairy products including milk, cheese, and yogurt. While...

Winter Bone Health

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Winter Bone Health Winter in the deep South doesn’t bring quite the same ferocity it does up north, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t bring inconveniences of its own. While we might not have ice and snow on a regular basis, we still have plenty of cold and damp to make winter occasionally uncomfortable and sometimes even treacherous. Even the youngest...

Achieving orthopaedic health in 2022

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Achieving orthopaedic health in 2022 Year after year, the most common new year’s resolutions involve improving overall health and exercising more. Both are worthwhile aspirations, but for some people, arthritis or other orthopaedic issues can make them a bit challenging… but not impossible. By refining your resolution to focus on your orthopaedic...

Summer Hydration and Bone Health

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Summer Hydration and Bone Health Everybody needs water to live. In fact, it is among the first and most important things your body needs to function. There is simply no system, organ, or body part that does not need to be hydrated in order to function. Even your bones need adequate hydration to stay healthy. And proper hydration can be a particularly...

Tips for strong healthy bones

Posted in Bone Health, DOC Updates, Foot & Ankle, Our Services, Treatments.

Tips for strong healthy bones It’s a fact of aging that we lose bone density as we get older. Our bones simply don’t grow or repair themselves as quickly as they used to. In fact, nearly 10 million Americans have osteoporosis, which weakens bones and increases risk for fractures. Women are especially prone to osteoporosis during menopause because...

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Osteoporosis Month: Everything You Need to Know

Spotlight on DOC Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine’s Bone Health Clinic

Nutrition and Bone Health: What you eat and drink matters

Winter Bone Health

Achieving orthopaedic health in 2022

Summer Hydration and Bone Health

Tips for strong healthy bones

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