NOF Tip for 3 May – Calcium

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...

Treat to Target #5 – VFA

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...

Calcium and Vitamin D3 Can Help !!

Once again we have been treated to statisticians mushing together multiple disparate previous studies to “prove” that calcium alone, or vitamin D alone, or both together in one of many...

National Osteoporosis Prevention Month

May is National Osteoporosis Month.  That should be National Osteoporosis Prevention Month.  Or perhaps National Bone Health Optimization Month. Click on the helpful link to National Osteoporosis Foundation to learn...

Any Fracture => Bone Health Evaluation

Any fracture, especially after age 50, in a woman or a man, requires a Complete Bone Health Evaluation.  This was preached from the podium at the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) meeting last...

Keep Your Dad Fracture Free For Fathers’ Day

Do better than another shirt or tie for Fathers’ Day.  Make sure your Dad stays Fracture Free!  What?  Men don’t have Osteoporosis or Fractures.  But they do! 25% of all...