Osteoporosis screen
Osteoporosis literally means “porous bones” and is one of the most common bone diseases in the world.
As your body develops, new bone grows as old bone breaks down. However after age 40, your bones gradually lose density, as there’s less bone growth and more breaking down of bone. This is when osteoporosis can weaken bones, causing them to break more easily.
To understand how osteoporosis affects your bone, it’s useful to know how your bones are structured. Your bones have an outside section that’s hard and made of calcium – this protects the spongy, honeycomb-like interior of the bone. Osteoporosis affects both parts of the bone, but especially the inside. It causes the holes in the spongy honeycomb to get bigger, so the bone in between gets thinner and is weakened, making the bone more likely to break. Tiny fragments of the inside of your bones are released into your blood stream.
It can take years for the disease to develop and you might not be aware you have it until you break a bone. There is no real cure for osteoporosis, but if detected early, treatments can be used to slow it down or help stop it developing.
Our osteoporosis screen monitors the increase in the tiny fragments in your blood stream and can be used to monitor effectiveness of your hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Vitamin D deficiency is also associated with impaired bone development and potential bone softening disease; also tendon and ligament damage.
Osteoporosis screening can also be carried out through bone density scanning (DEXA) of various joints.
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Bournemouth
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01273 624 488Warren Road, Brighton, BN2 6DX
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01223 370 9224 Trumpington Road, Cambridge, CB2 8AF
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01242 246500Hatherley Lane, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 6SY
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01244 680 444Wrexham Road, Chester, CH4 7QP
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Chichester
01243 53060078 Broyle Road, Chichester, PO19 6WB
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01332 540100Rykneld Road, Derby, DE23 4SN
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Exeter
01392 276 591Wonford Road, Exeter, EX2 4UG
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Guildford
01483 555 800Stirling Road, Guildford, GU2 7RF
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Haywards Heath
01444 456999Burrell Road, Haywards Heath, RH16 1UD
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Ipswich
01473 279100Foxhall Road, Ipswich, IP4 5SW
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Leeds
0113 32272512 Leighton Street, Leeds, LS1 3EB
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Leicester
0116 2743 753 - option 3Scraptoft Lane, Leicester, LE5 1HY
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Newcastle upon Tyne
01912 816 131Clayton Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 1JP
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01782 432227Clayton Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 4DB
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020 3386 900038 Giltspur Street, London, EC1A 7BS
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Oxford
01865 307777Beech Road, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7RP
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Parkside
020 8971 800053 Parkside, Wimbledon, London, SW19 5NX
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01752 775 861Derriford Road, Plymouth, PL6 8BG
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Shrewsbury
01743 282500Longden Road, Shrewsbury, SY3 9DP
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Tees
01642 360 100Junction Road, Norton, Stockton on Tees, TS20 1PX
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020 8505 3311High Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, IG9 5HX
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01892 531 111Kingswood Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 4UL
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01926 427971The Chase, Old Milverton Lane, Leamington Spa, CV32 6RW
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01372 233890Haxby Road, York, YO31 8TA
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