A new study reveals that learning martial arts skills can help people with osteoporosis. It can be prove beneficial for elderly people to avoid bone fractures.

The research advised people, who experienced frequent bone fractures, to fight against it by learning kung fu, karate and judo techniques.

Researchers have examined few healthy volunteers who participated in the study and learn martial art training.

Researchers want to analyze whether this study will help people with osteoporosis or not and they found that hip fractures could be prevented by teaching these skills to elderly patients.

Researchers have tracked healthy people to check the feasibility of the study because this could be unsafe to apply this study on people suffering with osteoporosis, said by Dr Brenda Groen, from the Institute for Fundamental and Clinical Human Movement Sciences at Vrije University, Amsterdam.

He said that the research team has taken into account young people for carefully examining the hip impact forces during martial arts fall exercises.

Therefore on the basis of this study, the researchers suggest people with osteoporosis to learn fall training techniques, provided they should wear hip protectors during the training, carry out fall exercises on a thick mattress and last but not the least avoid forward fall exercises from a standing position.

In the other part of the study, researchers also compared the force factor involved by healthy people and people with osteoporosis. They have developed a force platform, which is similar to a weighing machine.

This force platform will measure the force attached with each fall made by 12 volunteers, who had learnt martial art fall training.

They then compared the results with the known facts regarding how much force can be withstand by patients with osteoporosis. The findings are stated in the online journal BMC Research Notes.