Trial reportCalcified tissue international1993
One-year psoas training can prevent lumbar bone loss in postmenopausal women: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Calcified tissue international, 1993. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Exercise for preventing and treating osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011Pooled it
- Exercise for health for early postmenopausal women: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2004Pooled it
- Exercise for female osteoporosis. A systematic review of randomised clinical trials.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 1998Pooled it
- Effect of 6-Month High-Impact and Resistance Exercise on Regional Strength and BMD of Spine: A Clinical Trial Combined with a Finite-Element Study.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2026Trial
- Physical training preserves bone mineral density in postmenopausal women with forearm fractures and low bone mineral density.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2008Trial
- Effects of different types of exercise over 24 weeks on bone mineral density in postmenopausal women: A systematic review with pairwise and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Journal of sport and health science · 2026Review
- Exercise-responsive crosstalk within local muscle-bone units in osteosarcopenia: from mechanotransduction to secretome signalling.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Review
- Investigation of Trunk and Pelvis Muscle Activity during Sprinting using T2-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging.Journal of human kinetics · 2025Article
- Dancing for bone health: a 3-year longitudinal study of bone mineral accrual across puberty in female non-elite dancers and controls.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2006Article
- Predictors of compliance with a home-based exercise program added to usual medical care in preventing postmenopausal osteoporosis: an 18-month prospective study.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2005Article
- Osteoporosis and exercise.Postgraduate medical journal · 2003Review
- 2002 clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis in Canada.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2002Review
- The effects of brisk walking on markers of bone and calcium metabolism in postmenopausal women.Calcified tissue international · 1996Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
On the premise that bone response to exercise is locally controlled, we conducted a randomized trial to evaluate the effects of a 1-year training of psoas muscles (treatment group: TG) versus a 1-year training of deltoid muscles (control group: CG) on the lumbar trabecular bone mineral density (TBMD). TBMD was measured with computed tomography scan. Seventy-eight subjects were included and 67 completed the study. Intention to treat analysis revealed no significant change in TBMD from 0 to 12 months. Data analysis in the 67 remaining women, including both assiduous and nonassiduous subjects, revealed greater bone loss in CG than in TG although the difference was not significant. Similar analysis in a subgroup of subjects who performed the exercises assiduously (TG: n = 23, CG: n = 26) showed that the mean bone loss of all four vertebrae from 0 to 12 months was significantly greater in the CG (-8.87 +/- 12.75 mg/cm3, mean +/- SD) than in the TG (0.14 +/- 11.21 mg/cm3, mean +/- SD, P = 0.01). These results suggest that continuous 1-year psoas training can prevent lumbar bone loss in postmenopausal women and support the hypothesis of local action of physical activity.
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