April 24, 2012
Osteoporotic Fractures disable, disfigure, and kill more women each year than breast cancer, heart attack, and stroke combined. Half of all women over age 50 will suffer an Osteoporotic (Fragility)...
April 14, 2012
This week I spent 2 days advising Orthopedic Surgeons about how to deal with Osteoporotic patients. Identifying the Osteoporotic (Fragility) Fracture is the easy part. Correcting the Osteoporosis is more challenging....
March 29, 2012
Fragility Fractures are fractures caused by osteoporosis. Fragility Fractures cost an enormous amount of money. They also cause pain, suffering, disability, nursing home stays, and death. The estimated total cost of...
March 7, 2012
What determines “osteoporosis”? Is it DXA and BMD? Perhaps VFA and the lateral spine? What is the importance of Kyphosis? When is a collapsed vertebra a fracture? These are all...
March 5, 2012
Reading DXA looks easy. The computer reads it for you. All you have to do is sign the reported t-score. WRONG!! Computer generated DXA readings are often incorrect. Accurate DXA requires human...
February 29, 2012
“When should I get another DXA?” That was the question from a 70+ year old at the PEO group I talked to recently. That is the wrong question! Don’t get...
February 14, 2012
Valentine’s Day is Heart Day. But did you know that Vitamin D is good for your heart? I didn’t until my cardiologist gave me a “state of the art” paper from...
January 26, 2012
The researchers for the New England Journal of Medicine article about DXA counted only those few vertebral (spine) fractures that were recognized as fractures. Most vertebral fractures, especially in older women...
January 23, 2012
The New England Journal of Medicine has just published a study of DXA results. The researchers have interpreted the results as a reason to stop testing women with DXA. The...
January 1, 2012
New Year’s Resolutions. The routine ones are getting tired. So what can I do that’s different? What do I need? I am worried about the economy, jobs, Europe, Iran, gas...