DEXA Fracture Risk: Does Your Scan Tell the Whole Story?

Osteoporosis Myth: Your DEXA Score Tells You Everything You Need to Know About Your Fracture Risk
The Reality: Your DEXA score is only one piece of a much larger fracture risk picture.

Read that again.

The scan tells you about bone density. It does not tell you about the factors that most often determine whether a fracture actually happens.

What the Research on DEXA Scores and Fracture Risk Really Shows

Research now identifies a whole web of factors that independently predict fracture risk, and many of them have nothing to do with bone density.

Fall history, balance, reaction time, muscle loss, posture, frailty, neuromuscular coordination, and fear of falling all shape fracture risk.

None of these show up on a DEXA scan.

That means a bone density score can be useful, but it is not the full story.

What Does This Mean? Your DEXA Score Is a Starting Point, Not a Verdict

Your DEXA score is information.

It is not a complete assessment of your strength, balance, reflexes, posture, or ability to catch yourself before a stumble becomes a fall.

And those factors matter because they are trainable. At any age. With the right practice.

That is a very different way of thinking about fracture prevention.

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