Bone and Joint Awareness Week
Bone and Joint Awareness Week
It’s Bone and Joint Health Action Week, and we at New Marketlink Pharmaceutical Corporation recognize a week dedicated to raising awareness about bone and joint conditions and how to prevent, manage, and treat them. As life expectancy continues to increase, so does the number of people suffering from bone and joint disorders. If the cooler weather has you craving the outdoors but pain is holding you back, maybe it’s time to rethink your ways of being active, and get into the active lifestyle on a regular basis.
While regular exercise plays a significant role in prevention and management of most of these conditions, our goal with this blog is to help raise awareness and provide some simple tips to help prevent, manage, and treat the most common musculoskeletal conditions. Managing these conditions takes a team of medical professionals! Your doctor, physical therapist, occupational therapist, and dietitian are all resources you can turn to for help when you have questions. Maintaining a healthy weight, proper diet, and active lifestyle are the foundations for fighting each of these conditions. A diet consisting of 80% whole foods, and a lifestyle that encourages sleep and movement will help you move better and feel better as you continue to age. Your goals should be aimed at getting 7-9 hours of sleep on average per night, spending 5-15 minutes per day on self-care, and moving for a minimum of 60 minutes per day while avoiding prolonged static positions. We ought to think that this week is all about awareness. If you notice musculoskeletal changes in yourself or loved ones that create pain, make movement difficult or force you to miss out on your favorite activities, visit your doctor for a specialized checkup and therapy.
