Join us on Thursday, November 13, 2025, from 2:00-2:45pm ET with instructor Carol Michaels for a live virtual class: Strength Training for Osteoporosis for Beginners. This free 45-minute osteoporosis exercise class will show you how to strength train and stretch safely with osteoporosis.
Join the Bone Buddies Online Virtual Support Group this November! Weekly sessions cover topics ranging from diet, exercise, treatment, and more!
SHERRI BETZ, PT, DPT, GCS, CEEAA, NCPT is a 1991 graduate of the Louisiana State University Medical Center's School of Physical Therapy and received her doctorate in physical therapy from Evidence in Motion Health Sciences Institute in 2017. Sherri actually began her movement career as a national gymnastics competitor and as a group fitness instructor and personal trainer for Nautilus Fitness Centers in the 1980's. Inspired by the work of a physical therapist in one of the clubs where she trained, Sherri pursued a degree in physical therapy. Her love of movement education has been integrated into her physical therapy practice at a rehabilitative level and at a fitness level. Utilization of Pilates, Yoga and Gyrotonic® with a specialty in the treatment of the pelvic girdle and manual therapy of the spine and pelvis are integral in her practice as a Physical Therapist.
Join the Bone Buddies Online Virtual Support Group this October! Weekly sessions cover topics ranging from diet, exercise, treatment, and more!
As we celebrate the men in our lives this Father’s Day, please remind them to be attentive to their health, and especially their bone health. Many people don’t realize men get osteoporosis, too. One in four men over the age of 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis. And men suffer more fatalities after a hip fracture than women do.
In the U.S., more than two million broken bones are caused by osteoporosis each year. Studies show that half of all women over the age of 50 and a quarter of men will break a bone in their lifetime due to this chronic, debilitating disease. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), 54 million Americans in this age group either already have or are at risk of osteoporosis. Another staggering, under-reported fact is that osteoporosis-related bone fractures are responsible for more hospitalizations than heart attacks, strokes or breast cancer. What many do not know is that osteoporosis is a largely preventable disease.
It was just like any other Sunday; I was out cycling with friends on one of our morning rides. We'd just finished having coffee and were on our way home when it started to rain, only very lightly and not enough to make everything wet, when, from out of nowhere, disaster struck. We'd just set off from a set of traffic lights and then made a slow left-hand turn. One second I was upright, the next second the rear wheel slipped out from under me and I was on the deck. Because the speed was so slow I went down like a sack of spuds. My left knee took the full force of the fall.
