What might it take to get Medicare to pay for exercise the way it pays for drugs? Science. At least that’s what Christopher Sciamanna, a primary-care doctor at Penn State College of Medicine, hopes.
He is leading a large clinical trial that is testing whether a cheap, community-based exercise program that uses stretchy, color-coded bands can keep older people who’ve already broken one bone from breaking another. That’s an expensive injury that he knows Medicare — not to mention patients — would like to avoid…
This fun, simple exercise plan shapes up seniors. Could it save their bones?
