May 3, 2020
Calcium is crucial for bone health. I have many blogs dealing with calcium. Click the Calcium category to your left to see them all. NOF has a video about calcium...
September 3, 2019
FDA approved clinical trials are a well established way to gain access to medications not yet available to the general public. Most people have heard of individuals taking experimental treatments...
August 22, 2019
We have a new DXA Machine with a great new feature. We can do body composition with BodyLogic (by Hologic). Traditional body composition is a skin-fold pinch or BMI. Both...
February 25, 2018
Treat to Target of NO NEW FRACTURES. How do we find that target? DXA >-2.5 is a start. Fragility fractures increase new fracture risk. FRAX adds many more risk factors to the...
February 16, 2018
Our goal is NO NEW FRACTURES. Cancellous (spongy, like the ends of the drumstick) bone should be a strong latticework of struts called trabeculi. Clinical Osteoporosis, an increased fracture risk,...
January 31, 2018
Treat to Target means aiming for NO NEW FRACTURES. As discussed last time, the original target was to maintain Bone Mineral Density (BMD) at the level first tested. 25 years...
April 17, 2017
The National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) and the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) are meeting together later this week. This will be my 10th attendance at each group. They are...
April 5, 2017
So how do you find out what aspects of your bone health are pretty good already, what will be easy to fix, and what will take some real work? Start...
January 14, 2017
True in the 1960’s – even more true today. We expect to live into our 80’ and 90’s. We expect to enjoy those extra years. We can, with a little...
January 9, 2017
I have let the regular posts to the blog lapse for quite some time, while working on other issues. I have been reviewing my first-time Vertebral Fracture Assessment (VFA) patients. My...