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Bone Density Screening

Actonel® - Fracture Facts and Figures
  • Over time, multiple spinal fractures can lead to height loss or a curved back with severe disease
  • A curved back, or dorsal kyphosis, is also known as "dowager's hump" and causes a women to appear hunched over
  • Two thirds of spinal fractures caused by osteoporosis occur without any obvious symptoms
  • Women suffer more fractures due to osteoporosis in a year than they do heart attacks, strokes, and cases of breast cancer combined.
  • Approximately 40% of women over age 50 will experience osteoporotic fracture in their lifetimes
  • There are ways to help prevent spinal fractures

FOSAMAX®
    Although you've been diagnosed with thinning bones, you're not alone. In fact, over half of all women over 50 in the United States have thinning bones. Fortunately, you're living in an age when you can actually reverse bone loss. Your doctor has prescribed FOSAMAX®, which is clinically proven to help reverse bone loss. What's more, the effects continue for as long as you keep taking FOSAMAX®.

  • FOSAMAX® is for postmenupausal women who are at risk for or already have osteoporosis
  • FOSAMAX® was clinically proven to help reverse bone loss and strengthen bone
  • FOSAMAX® is hormone free
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Worried About Osteoporosis?
  With accuDEXA, peace of mind is 30 seconds away.  The best defense against osteoporosis is early detection and treatment.  The accuDEXA Bone Mineral Density Exam is a fast, safe, easy, comfortable and convenient way to assess BMD.   

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