Exercise and osteoporosis
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The mantra that ‘exercise is good for you’ is both a blessing for its simplicity and a curse for its clinical utility. Broad acceptance of this therapeutic notion by both medical and patient communities, based on an abundance of evidence, seems like a powerful platform from which to apply effective care.1,2 But despite this acceptance, few Australian adults receive physical activity recommendations from their GP, and any advice given is typically non-specific.3
There are multiple reasons for this. First, as a universal truth, the benefit of exercise can be relegated as ‘obvious’ and therefore not worthy of attention in already busy consults.
