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Fracture Risk

Guidance on understanding and reducing the risk of bone fractures. Covers how fracture risk is assessed with tools like FRAX and DEXA T-scores, plus practical steps to strengthen bones and prevent falls.

Demystifying Your DEXA Scan: Bone Density T-Scores Explained Simply

Demystifying Your DEXA Scan: Bone Density T-Scores Explained Simply

A T-score compares your bone density to a healthy young adult, and small differences change your diagnosis. Here's how to read your DEXA result and what you can do to improve it.

Do Weighted Vests Work for Osteoporosis? A PT's Evidence Review

Do Weighted Vests Work for Osteoporosis? A PT's Evidence Review

Weighted vests are having a moment, but do they actually build bone? A Groove physical therapist reviews the research and explains where a vest helps and where it doesn't.

T-Score Improving Workouts: Your Weekly Strength Schedule for Denser Bones

T-Score Improving Workouts: Your Weekly Strength Schedule for Denser Bones

Bone responds to load, not effort. Here is the weekly mix of heavy strength work, safe impact, and balance training that research shows can move a T-score, plus how to progress it without hurting yourself.

Why Free Weights Are Your Best Friend for Osteopenia

Why Free Weights Are Your Best Friend for Osteopenia

A bone density scan showing osteopenia is a warning light, not a verdict. Lifting heavy enough to challenge your skeleton, two to three days a week, is the most reliable way to slow bone loss and cut fracture risk.

A Comprehensive Guide to Vitamin K2 for Bone Density

A Comprehensive Guide to Vitamin K2 for Bone Density

Vitamin K2 activates the proteins that bind calcium to your skeleton. Here is what the research says about dosage, pairing it with vitamin D3, and cutting fracture risk.

How Often Do You Really Need a DEXA Scan?

How Often Do You Really Need a DEXA Scan?

How often you need a DEXA scan depends on your T-score and risk level, not the calendar. Here are the screening intervals major guidelines recommend and what Medicare will cover.

The Complete Guide to DEXA T-Score Fracture Risk

The Complete Guide to DEXA T-Score Fracture Risk

A DEXA T-score is the standard measure of bone density, but it only tells part of your fracture-risk story. Learn what the numbers mean, why some fractures happen with normal scores, and how doctors use FRAX.