If you’ve ever suffered a bone-related injury like a stress fracture, you know how hard it can be to be sidelined and focused on rehab. And you’re not alone: Research suggests runners have up to a ...

The doctors and nurses at the emergency room in Jacksonville, Florida, were “perplexed,” as Dia Thomas remembers it. They believed her when she said she was in pain—imaging had revealed fractures in ...

A DEXA scan usually helps a doctor assess bone density. It may also have uses in determining body composition, such as the percentage of lean muscle and fat. The dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA ...

You have a DEXA scan in the x-ray (radiology) or nuclear medicine department of the hospital. A radiographer or a specially trained technician usually does the scan. It takes about 10 to 20 minutes.

DEXA scans are all the talk in the wellness world, with tons of celebrities swearing by them in their health endeavors. If they’ve popped up in your feed, you might be asking yourself—do I need one, ...

A bone density scan is a painless imaging test that measures the density and, sometimes, quality of your bones. Bone density and quality affect how strong or thick your bones are. Bone density scans ...

Testing your bone density – how strong your bones are – is the only way to know for sure if you have osteoporosis. This condition causes your bone tissue to break down faster than new tissue can be ...

I am lying on my back in a brightly lit room in a Toronto sports medicine clinic as a scanner slowly moves from the top of my head to the tips of my toes. Five minutes later, I will have more numbers ...