Understanding Your Risks
It’s now possible to get a reading on your bone health at regular intervals and with more accuracy than ever possible. Imagine having a bone health check-in as part of your annual physical or at periodic intervals as suggested by your physician. Wouldn’t it be helpful to not have to wait 2 years to find out how your bone health program is working for you? It’s now possible with a new technology, REMS (Radiofrequency Echographic Multi Spectrometry).
A baseline for everyone:
The DEXA scan is only available by prescription and typically not given until age 65. This leaves one in the dark until it’s too late to make significant improvements in one’s bone health. Until now.
With REMS all adults, 20 years or older, have access to a scan without a prescription.
Dr. Gosselin highly recommends that everyone get a baseline scan at an early age; long before the possibility of a bone fractures is even on your radar. Since peak bone mass is achieved by our late twenties for women and early thirties for men, its not too soon to establish a baseline by that age. Similar to understanding one’s cholesterol or blood sugar, bone health evaluation can now be managed as part of one’s overall health routine.
What information does the REMS scan provide?
very accurate bone mineral density (BMD) complete with T-scores and Z-scores like a DEXA scan AND…
information about your bone’s microarchitecture which is analogous to the quality of the bone - something that a DEXA scan is unable to assess
And we know that its really the bone quality as measured by a Fragility Score that determines fracture risk, not bone mineral density. And only REMS advanced ultrasound technology can evaluate bone quality using the Fragility Score
measures body composition and provides valuable information about lean body mass. This is important because muscle dynamics influence bone dynamics. The more lean body mass the better your bone quality.
Learn more about REMS and how it compares to the DEXA scan.
where can you get a REMS scan?
Fortunately, Dr. Gosselin offers scans at Harbor Health Group - the only location in New England!
It’s a fast and painless proceedure (30 minutes) with immediate results. You will receive a followup report to share with your physician and a brief explanation of the findings. Fee is $200
