Bellbird Bone Builders
What is Bellbird Bone Builders?
- Strength, impact & balance training for people with osteopenia/osteoporosis or looking to improve bone health
What is osteoporosis and osteopenia?
- Osteoporosis weakens bones making them more likely to break.
- It is considered a silent condition in that weakening of the bones is not felt until a bone breaks.
- Bones are living tissue that our cells continually reabsorb and replace. In osteoporosis the bone reabsorption occurs faster than our body replaces the bone. This results in less dense bone that is more prone to break.
- Osteoporotic fractures are common in the spine, wrist and hips.
- Osteopenia is a milder form of osteoporosis that can be seen as a warning of developing osteoporosis.
Fisk factors for Osteoporosis
The risk of osteoporosis increases with:
- Years past your mid 30s
- Being a woman, particularly asian and white women
- Being post-menopausal
- Low calcium intake
- Low vitamin D intake
- Having a small body frame (being small or thin)
- Having a family history of osteoporosis
- A sedentary lifestyle or long periods of bed rest
- Cigarette smoking
- Heavy alcohol consumption (more than two drinks a day)
- Hormone imbalances. Particularly low estrogen in women and low testosterone in men
- Medical conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and eating disorders (like anorexia nervosa)
- Some medications such as oral corticosteroids
How can Bellbird Bone Builders help?
- A physiotherapist knowledgeable in exercises that stress your bones in a controlled way runs sessions that are tailored to each participant. The controlled stress stimulates your body to lay down more bone competing with your body’s natural tendency to reabsorb bone.
- Research shows that a combination of strength, impact and balance training is effective in improving bone density and reducing chance of fractures.
How do I register? and What does it cost?
- To start book an Assessment either online via the links below or by calling reception.
- Your first meeting is one to one with your physiotherapist. It may be claimable with your health fund (code 500) or under a GP Chronic Condition Management Plan (GPCCMP – Formerly known as CDM or EPC).
- You do not need a referral from your Doctor to undertake in the Bellbird Bone Builders sessions. However, if you have an GPCCMP a portion of the preliminary assessment consult may be Medicare subsidised.
- The cost of the group session program may be claimable via your private health fund. If you do have a GPCCMP, it will only subsidise the assessment consult, Medicare rules dictate it is not able to be used for group sessions.
- For further details on the fees please contact reception on 03 9878 8088.
How are sessions run?
Bellbird Bone Builders Australia training consists of:
- An initial appointment
- Training sessions which run twice a week
