Muscle and Ligament Strength in Menopause with Kathryn Ackerman, MD, MPH (Episode 90)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

If you’re feeling more injury prone, you’re not alone. Many women who have led active, athletic lives without a lot of injuries and “itises” suddenly find themselves sidelined more often during the menopause transition. Fluctuating and declining hormone levels directly impact your musculoskeletal system, as do your lifelong movement patterns, exercise habits, recovery practices, and nutrition–all of which become increasingly important during this time of life. This week’s guest, sports medicine physician and endocrinologist Kathryn Ackerman, MD, MPH, dives into what we know, what we’ve yet to learn, and what we should be doing right now to dial it all in to stay strong through menopause and beyond.

Kathryn is the medical director of the Female Athlete Program in the Sports Medicine Division at Boston Children's Hospital. Her interests include female athletes, rowing injuries, endocrinology, relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S), optimizing performance and health in athletes with diabetes, exercise-associated hyponatremia, and exercise and bone health. She is also a former national team lightweight rower, chair of the US Rowing Medical Commission, member of the World Rowing Medical Commission, and the course director for the Female Athlete Conference, held biennially at Boston Children's Hospital. You can learn more about her here and the paper she references on the Effect of Estrogen on Musculoskeletal Performance and Injury Risk by Keith Barr here.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help
0:21.2	you feel and perform you best, no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.0	Hello, hello, strong feisty women.
0:34.1	First, I would like to take a moment and thank you all for the hearts and the stars and the ratings and sharing the show.
0:40.4	We have cracked the top 100 health and fitness podcasts in the U.S. and Canada,
0:45.5	which when you consider how many general health and fitness podcasts there are in North America, is a big deal.
0:51.4	So I just wanted to take this second and thank you all.
0:56.8	Okay. So this week,
1:02.3	we are talking structural health, specifically our connective tissues, our joints, and the musculoskeletal system. Because not a week goes by that I don't hear from someone in the membership
1:08.2	or in the Hit Play Not Pause Facebook group who is struggling
1:11.6	with aches, pains, niggles, and injuries that they never had before they entered the menopause
1:17.9	transition. So I called up Dr. Catherine Ackerman, who is a sports medicine physician, endocrinologist,
1:25.1	and the medical director of the female athlete program in the
1:28.3	sports medicine division at Boston Children's Hospital. We dig into all of the research, and
1:34.3	often the lack thereof, as well as the complex role that our sex hormones play in the
1:39.7	connective tissue and joint health, as well as what happens during the menopause transition that can
1:44.9	jeopardize that.
1:46.5	And, of course, we talk about how to keep those joints and ligaments happy and healthy, as well
1:52.1	as other sports-related advice that she has gleaned during her long career specializing
1:56.6	in female sports medicine.
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