April 22, 2013
The National Osteoporosis Foundation presented “Interdisciplinary Symposium on Osteoporosis 13” last Thursday through Sunday. Over 400 attendees braved flooded streets and major delays at O’Hare. It was well worth it....
April 17, 2013
The goal of Bone Health Evaluation and Treatment is Fracture Prevention! DXA and Bone Mineral Density (BMD) are useful tools for evaluation. But DXA and BMD are only one out of...
April 12, 2013
This is post # 200 in a little over 2 years. Our audience has grown. Last month we averaged over 200 visitors and 600 pages daily. We had a total of...
March 19, 2013
The vertebrae (bones in the spine) can gradually crumble or suddenly crunch. The resulting minor ache is often mistaken for arthritis or a pulled muscle. Gradual crumbles are “morphometric” (detected by x-ray)...
March 7, 2013
“Men are from Mars”, so March is a good time to think about men, the overlooked minority in osteoporosis. The American Journal of Men’s Health has published a study of...
March 3, 2013
What setting is most successful at evaluating Osteoporosis and initiating therapy? Fracture Clinics are the winner again in a new study published in Osteoporosis International. That is why I spent 2...
February 20, 2013
Increased Fracture Risk is Clinical Osteoporosis. Clinical Osteoporosis is a diagnosis. It is a chronic medical condition that you have for the rest of your life, like high blood pressure....
February 10, 2013
Bones are primarily made of protein. Sure, we think of them as mostly calcium, but calcium is only a small portion of the total construct. Most of Bone Matrix, the...
January 1, 2013
Happy New Year. This is the first day of the rest of your life. If you could...
November 18, 2012
Recently I had a patient whose spine had lost 10% of its Bone Mineral Density (BMD) since her last DXA. She has lost height in the last year. She has...