Sports and fractures

2000/04/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Osasuna

Sports practice in youth is beneficial for the body, among other things because it increases the number of minerals that bones strong. Young sports hardens bones and reduces the risk of breakage. These benefits do not last until old age, and although sports practice helps prevent osteoporosis, etc., the effects of fracture are different.

Research by a team of Swedish researchers indicates that high-level players have a faster bone mineral loss.

The mineral excesses produced by physical exercise reduce the risk of fracture in the first years of abandonment, but at 35 years of retirement the probability curve is reversed.

From a certain age, therefore, the youth sport will not free us at least from fractures. But it can offer us other benefits.