Anyone had experience with OsteoStrong, who is not a franchisee?

Okay, did a little research on NASA vibration technology. There's a company called Bone Health Technologies that is testing a vibration belt you can wear around your waist that looks like a "fanny pack."
Here's the basic info:
Currently, the American Journal of Managed Care expects there to be over three million osteoporotic fractures a year by 2025, with related expenditures of $25bn per year.
The treatments currently include oral medications and injections that reduce the rate of resorption, or breakdown, in bones, as well as strengthening the bone that’s already there.
But one company wants to prevent osteoporosis before it occurs by providing patients with an easily-accessible, low-effort way to create the impact needed to stimulate bone to rebuild stronger – simply wearing a vibration belt.
Laura Yecies became CEO of this company, Bone Health Technologies, after holding a position on the board prior to her appointment, and says the company opened her eyes to the scale of the osteoporosis problem.
“That part I understood, but also, in the US there are 54 million people with low bone density, and half of all women will have a fracture [in their lifetime].”
It’s this need to prevent osteoporosis before it causes fractures that OsteoBoost, the company’s debut vibration belt product, was created to address, and if its recent FDA Breakthrough Device Designation and $2.5m venture capital raise are anything to go by, there’s a decent amount of confidence in it.
The research story starts with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), which funded a number of projects in the early 2000s looking at whether standing on a vibrating plate could counteract the rapid bone loss experienced by astronauts in the weightless state they enter in space due to low levels of gravity.
Here's the important stuff: The vibrating belt was found to reduce bone loss in initial validation studies (Credit: Bone Health Technologies) She expects the product to come in at “probably around $800”, but the decision on price won’t be finalized until the company can take OsteoBoost to market.
Bone Health Technologies is still conducting the pivotal trial that will spell success or failure for the product, but research conducted on animals and humans already shows a positive link between use of the device and improved bone density levels.
In its proof-of-concept study, the firm took 17 postmenopausal women and measured their NTX levels – a peptide found in urine known to be a reliable indicator of the rate of bone resorption.
They found that one 30-minute treatment reduced NTX levels by 14%, which Yecies says is equal to the effect of exercise and medication.
The results grabbed the attention of the US National Institutes of Health, which committed $2m in grant money to its pivotal trial now underway with 126 postmenopausal women with osteopenia.

I hope this offers some hope to those of you that are frustrated by the side effects of drug treatments and the lack of other options.

My doctor has seen compression fractures that were caused by the machine that you press bith feet against. I injured both knees on it as well.
All of their studies were done by osteo strong itself.

Hello all,

Here is a link to an indepth interview Margaret Martin conducted with Dr. Rubin, who developed the LIV (Low Intensity Vibration) exerciser in conjunction with NASA.

After reading this article I stopped using the Eilison BOLT, a high intensity vibration platform exerciser I had purchased on Amazon. Since the LIV models are extremely expensive, I've started doing Dr. Loren Fishman's "12 Poses vs Osteoporosis" which improves bone density.

Martin is the real deal! She is worth listening to. She has been very helpful to me and my discussions with my endocrinologist. I recommend all of her videos on exercises and interviews.

I got a spinal fracture from using their machines. I called the Osteoporosis Foundation and they are not approved by them.

Can you upload a picture of the machine you used? It would be very helpful. Most of the vibration machines are dangerous of us. EU has approved the low vibration device.

It wasn’t a vibration machine. Osteostrong has 3 or 4 other types of machines for strength training.

That makes more sense. The Martin article had nothing to do with Osteostrong. It’s worth reading especially the interview with Rubin.

Thank you for the article.

I was diagnosed with Osteoporosis and was excited when I discovered Osteostrong at a health fair, hoping this was the perfect solution to avoiding pharmaceuticals. After going to Osteostrong for 15 months, I had another Dexascan done to evaluate my bone density hoping to see great improvements. Unfortunately, the tests showed no improvement and more bone loss. So beware.