Thinning bones and constricted muscles and joints impact health, longevity and athletic performance, but addressing them usually falls between the cracks of regular exercise training. That has presented new opportunity for businesses — and customers looking to improve their fitness.
Edy Seaver, a 61-year-old artist from Venice who swims and kayaks for fitness, had osteoporosis. Yes,— as in past tense. After four months of once-a-week 10-minute workouts at OsteoStrong, a wellness studio in Mar Vista that features proprietary resistance machines, a DEXA scan showed that her bone density improved by more than 7%. That moved her up out of the osteoporosis category into osteopenia, a less severe degree of bone thinning.
OsteoStrong was founded in Texas in 2012 by biomechanics engineer Don Jaquish, who wanted to help his mother, a lifelong tennis player who’d been diagnosed with osteoporosis.He found some interesting information in a study from the osteoporosis research center at Jyväskylä University in Finland, which said that the world’s densest bones belong to gymnasts — due to their ability to absorb the force of 4.2 times their body weight when they “stick the landing.
The idea for StretchLab, founded in Venice in 2015, came from the hands-on, cool-down stretch that Los Angeles attorney Saul Janson got from his personal trainer, Tim Trost.
“My flexologist totally released my hips and back,” he says. “I’m pain-free and back to normal for the first time in a decade.”
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