Rheumatology, bone health & infusion therapies

Bone health may have taken a backseat but now is the time you can catch up with your care!

Questions have been raised as to what extent the “global state of public health emergency of 2020” impacted patient’s bone health because of the relative physical inactivity, the dietary changes and relative lack of test and evaluation.

The good news is probably not a lot.

Bone loss generally occurs slowly “over years and sometimes decades” in adults.

Despite stay-at-home orders in 2020 most patients did not experience delays in oral medication prescription.   However, we know that abrupt cessation of certain therapies can cause increased risk of harm and some treatments have been inadvertently delayed or deferred due to lack of access. 

The greater fear is that in the past year there have been delays in the assessments of bone loss due to the lack of scheduled bone density testing.

It is also possible that newer entrants to the peri menopausal stage have not been screened for “the early rapid bone loss” that occurs around the time of menopause in some women. A simple health assessment and lab testing are generally recommended at this time.