Hello, and welcome to Mayo Connect. If you look to the top of this discussion, you can see it had been going on for some time, with lots of questions, answers and concerns addressed. Have you read through it? Some people have had good experiences, others have not been so fortunate.

When you see a post about someone using Osteostrong, if you hit "Reply" you can ask anything you would like of them. They will get a notification that someone has contacted them. For example @laurenn reports her experience just above.

One recurring theme in the discussion has been that Osteostrong is a franchise, and not all are equal. Most places are not run by medical or PT professionals, some places seem more interested in "signing you up" than in tailoring a safe program just for you.

Good luck on this journey, you can learn a lot on Connect about which treatments are based in science and which are more marketing.
Sue

Morning lilyrock8~
Thank you for your inquiry into OsteoStrong. I can understand wanting to have a definite way of regaining bone strength and integrety...but, I don't agree with the way Osteostrong goes about this.
I feel it's very harmful to be 'all of a sudden' lifting 5x your weight..even for a sec. or two. Damage can be done quite fast....I feel that I fractured my vertebre more with the one treatment I did have with this company.

I do use Bone-up and stronthiem..and have improved my severe osteoporosis by 9.8% in my lumbar spine from 2022 to now, 2024. Have stayed the same in my hips...but, my mid back has stabelized...where I had 3 compression fractures..T-8,9,10. I use a hot pack on my back most afternoons and evenings and that takes any pain away from my entire back as I move it up and down...feels so wonderful!!! I don't have to take pain meds any longer. I'll be 80 this year and feel better and better.
Since there are no instent cures for our aging bones..keeping up with it all is a constent, for sure...I exercise daily...finally got a treadmill so I can walk a mile or so each day along with whatever else I do. I take a lot of supplimtnts and my recent lab scores reflect my good health! Keep up the fight! Slow and steady wins the race! Best to you....

I do not have a conclusivce comment; the jury is still out for me about Biodensity - which is the root of Osteostrong. I have been going for about six months.

I am in a clinic with a doctor that has a Biodensity machine and I go once a week for a treatment. It is actually a bit more money than what I hear Osteostrong is - BUT…it is minute by minute instruction on position, posture, shoulders down, press here, yada yada. It has convinced me that the “how” it is done is extremely important to prevent injury and to be effective - if the research is right.

The harm risk that someone mentioned comes in not being coachable when you have a trained Biodensity doctor at your side.

I know that Osteo loading can be done other ways - and it does make sense this is a good bone care idea, but again - how it is done. I would be totally fearful of doing weight lifting without a personal, knowledge trainer as well.

My doctor tells me that Osteostrong took the original Biodensity machine and made it into four different ones. You can read about the machine at Biodensity dot com - and the research there.

Another ??? in this whole mix is the dependability of the DEXA. I am leaning toward too much is put into its reading because they are telling me that more accuracy comes from the same clinic and the same clinician! This doctor uses Echolight Scan - another topic for sure.