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Strength Training and Ageing: Why Getting Strong Beats Getting Stiff Many people believe the body naturally becomes stiff, fragile and unreliable with age. But what if that stiffness isn’t ageing at all? What if it’s loss of strength — not years — that’s quietly changing how you move? Strength...

Effect of Ageing on Back Health - Muscle Loss & Sarcopenia Feeling weaker as you age? You’re not imagining it – muscle loss (sarcopenia) is a real issue that affects your back health and overall mobility. Understanding Muscle Loss: As we age, our muscles naturally lose strength and...

Sarcopenia Part 4; What can you do to treat sarcopenia? Sarcopenia. We know what it is, we know why we can develop it, we know how it is diagnosed. Let's discuss what we can do about it. There are two burning questions about sarcopenia. Firstly, how do...

Part 3; How is sarcopenia diagnosed? Imaging, testing and questionairre.   Imaging techniques. The gold standard (best) method for identifying sarcopenia is using MRI or CT studies around the pelvis region where an accurate measure of the body can be taken in cross section. It...

Sarcopenia - Part 2 - Why do we get it? It's no surprise that the most common cause of sarcopenia is the aging process. In fact we start losing muscle somewhere in our 30’s. The rate of loss is dependent on many factors but most estimates...

Sarcopenia - What is it? Sarcopenia is a such a good word for a start. We all know what a coffin is. What we may not know is that in old Greek a coffin was known as a sarcophagus because it was a "flesheater". From sarco meaning...

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