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Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Nov 3, 2023 | Replies (1084)Comment receiving replies
@callalloo not sure why you think the femur score is not important. Hip fractures are very disabling. I wonder if I "misspoke" awhile back. My report says the femur neck is not reliable to measure change. That may be particular to me, and it may not mean the femur neck score is unreliable. To be honest, I don't know what it means. But the femur score is different from the femur neck score anyway.
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I think that I mistook your comment below, and another poster whose femur score was somewhat dismissed, as meaning the doctors considered the femus gm/cm² than diagnostic.
"My reports say that the femur neck score is not reliable for measuring changes."
The only data I have for two of the DEXAs I had done were the gm/cm² bone density, T-scores and Z-scores for L1-L4, right and left femur neck.
Interestingly, the DEXA that I had done at an orthopedics office gave the most measurements, including from other vertebral areas and along several points on both femurs. No one has ever measured wrists.
I'm familiar with the femur neck score. What is the 'femur score'?
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Wow, do I agree with you. My mother died after a hip fracture. Although they tried surgery to repair it...she never walked again and stopped talking or engaging in any way. I would drive two hours to see her on Friday, place her in a wheelchair and take her through the rose garden. She had no reaction........just stared straight ahead. For her, quite an active run-a-bout......this was the end.
Unfortunate and preventable???????
Chris