Osteoporosis
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Restore your bone health and return to high-impact activity with our evidence-based rehabilitation and clinical nutrition plans.
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Understanding Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a progressive skeletal condition characterised by compromised bone mass. Often developing silently, it represents a state where your skeletal remodelling cycle absorbs more bone tissue than it actively builds, gradually lowering bone density and increasing susceptibility to fractures over time.
A clinical diagnosis is typically confirmed by a T-score of -2.5 or lower on a DEXA scan, or following the occurrence of a low-impact fragility fracture. Proactive detection enables us to deploy joint-preservation, multidirectional loading, and targeted nutritional protocols to halt systemic degradation before a severe structural failure occurs.
Looking after your bones is vital at every stage of life, and taking action early can drastically slow or prevent further bone loss. Whether you are recovering from a fracture or looking to build baseline density, we create a personalised plan to improve your confidence in movement.
If you have recently suffered a fragility fracture, early treatment focuses on managing pain, safely protecting the injured area, and helping you confidently return to daily activities.
As your bones heal, we gradually introduce a personalised strength-training program designed to physically stimulate bone growth and improve muscle balance to prevent falls.
Bone loss frequently affects women before and after menopause, older adults, and endurance athletes or dancers who under-fuel their bodies, leading to low energy availability.
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We move far beyond standard, passive care to deliver an active, collaborative rehabilitation model that targets bone density from every angle. By utilising precise diagnostic data, we ensure your bones and muscles are systematically built to handle load safely.
We utilise VALD force plates and force frames to objectively measure your joint loading symmetry, balance, and physical capacity, ensuring we never guess with your skeletal health.
Our Lewisham clinic proudly offers the ONERO program, a highly specific, evidence-based exercise initiative designed to safely stimulate bone density and prevent falls in individuals with osteoporosis.
True bone development cannot happen in a silo; our physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, and clinical dietitians collaborate closely to optimise your loading capacity and bone-remodelling nutrition.
A successful approach to reversing bone loss requires targeted interventions that physically and nutritionally prompt your body to lay down new bone tissue. We utilise a combination of specific mechanical loading and metabolic support to safely rebuild your skeletal strength.
Lifting heavy, safe loads creates a mechanical pull on the bones, stimulating osteoblast activity to increase bone mineral density and build the muscular armour needed to prevent falls.
Activities that safely introduce impact—such as stomping, jumping, or multidirectional stepping—provide the jarring stimulus bones require to adapt, thicken, and become more resilient over time.
Mechanical loading cannot work without the right building blocks, making targeted nutritional strategies focusing on calcium, Vitamin D, and sufficient systemic energy essential to fuel the bone-remodelling cycle.
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FAQ
Yes, progressive strength training is one of the most effective ways to treat bone loss. Under the guidance of our Exercise Physiologists, we construct a personalised program—or integrate you into our structured ONERO classes at our Lewisham clinic—to safely stimulate bone-mineral deposition without overloading your skeletal system.
Your body requires specific nutritional building blocks to maintain and repair bone tissue. Adequate caloric energy, balanced protein, calcium, and Vitamin D are absolutely critical to support the bone-remodelling cycle and prevent your body from pulling minerals from your bones to fuel daily activity.
Not necessarily. While temporary load reduction is required if you are recovering from a fracture, complete avoidance of impact is counterproductive. We use objective force testing to evaluate your mechanics and structure a graded return-to-impact program.
Not always. While a DEXA scan provides the baseline T-score necessary for a formal diagnosis of osteoporosis, we can safely begin your tailored, load-managed rehabilitation program based on our physical assessment while you wait for scan results.
Clinical guidelines recommend most adults consume 1,000 mg of calcium daily, which increases to 1,300 mg for women over 50 and men over 70. Our clinical dietitians will help you achieve this through 3 to 4 daily servings of dairy or calcium-fortified alternatives.