“Baby-Boomers” Should Check Their Bones

A patient had no idea why her doc sent her to me for a Complete Bone Health Evaluation.  As a “baby-boomer”, she lives by the motto: “You are only as...

Match Medications to Your Needs

Are your bones still good enough and just need to be maintained?  Or have you fractured several times and need to rebuild your bones?  Are Steroid Inhalers supressing your Osteoblasts...

Sometimes We Need Medications

Patients who have already fractured may need osteoporosis medications.  Adding fractures to a low BMD or T-score on DXA makes the Clinical Osteoporosis more severe and increases Fracture Risk.  This...

Increased Fracture Risk = Osteoporosis

Fracture Risk is the elephant in the room.  Fractures can keep you from doing what you want for weeks or months.  Fractures can put you in a Nursing Home, sometimes...

NOF 2014 – Prevent Second Fractures

The Second Fracture can be prevented.  How?  Realize that your first fracture is a “Bone Attack” – a warning to start working on your Bone Health. The National Osteoporosis Foundation...

Identify Fracture Risk – Prevent Fractures

Tomorrow I am at the 2014 National Osteoporosis Foundation meeting.  Actually the name “National Prevent Fractures Organization” would better explain our goals.  We don’t care about Osteoporosis as much as...

Read a Good Book About Bone Health

If you want to learn a lot about bone health, there is a book for you: “The Complete Book of Bone Health”. Diane L Schneider, MD is a former associate...

Not an Accident – It was a Bone Attack

If you have a Heart Attack or a Stroke (Brain Attack), you don’t say it was an accident.  You check out your heart or blood pressure to see what is...

Low Salt is a Double Win

Most people know that a diet high in Sodium puts them at increased risk for high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke (brain attack).  Very few people realize that a diet...