April 7, 2011
When I was in medical school over 40 years ago, we understood that old bones got soft and crumbled. In the spine that crumbling often took years. The vertebrae grew...
April 6, 2011
I was an orthopedic surgeon for 30 years before I started to treat osteoporosis. I started because most physicians in my area only treated DXA t-scores. I wanted to treat...
March 4, 2011
Speaking to groups about Osteoporosis is always interesting. Different persons have different questions. This week I spoke to a PEO chapter (a women-only “sorority”). One of the members was very...
February 24, 2011
Vertebral Compression Fractures represent an area of changing understanding of Osteoporosis. As an orthopaedic surgeon, I understand that a fracture is a fracture whether it occurs all at once or...
February 21, 2011
Forteo (Teriparatide) is the only Anabolic osteoporosis medication in the USA. It acts by directly stimulating the Osteoblast cells that make new bone matrix. It is the only type of osteoporosis...
February 8, 2011
Antiresorptive medications for osteoporosis are primarily used when your bone is still good enough or just needs some additional Calcium to harden and stiffen the bone matrix. Antiresorptives are a...
January 11, 2011
Vertebral Fracture Assessment or VFA is based on viewing the spine from the side. This side view compliments DXA and BMD by detecting Vertebral Compression Fractures, which are an indication...
January 5, 2011
I became interested in preventing osteoporosis because weak bones break easily. As an orthopedic surgeon I tried to put them back together. A Styrofoam coffee cup is stronger than some...
January 4, 2011
Osteoporosis is the cause of Fragility Fracture in over half of all women and a quarter of all men during their lifetimes. The bad news is that serious Fragility Fractures...