Proper Hip Positioning for Effective DEXA Scan Report

In this article, a brief discussion with the field of hip positioning, especially for
analyzing likelihood of fracture, evaluating bone gain or loss, and effect of fracture
treatment. Moreover, the bone clinic pertains to hip positioning of individuals just
before using Dual X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) scan.
Bone loss nearly always follows
menopause. As people age, they lose
bone
substance
and
became
increasingly liable to fractures. Elderly
individuals, especially women suffer
an elevated incidence of broken
bones, particularly inside the wrist,
shoulder, spine, and hip. Of those
breaks, hip fractures are sometimes
by far the most serious to the patient
and also to society.
A hip fracture with in elderly individual usually requires an operation to stabilize
the break to improve the prognosis. Despite an operation, about 20% of fracture
patients still die, while the remainder often requires chronic hospital or nursing
home care. It costs roughly up to 10 billion dollars annually to care for individuals
that have broken hips attributable to loss of bone thickness or osteoporosis. As our
elderly population keeps increasing, the financial drain will increase per annum.
Current technology allows GPs to predict the risk of hip fracture by determining the
amount of bone remaining in the particular field of the proximal femur. Most
physicians use DXA scanning in Brisbane to measure a bone mineral density (BMD)
and bone mineral concentration (BMC) of several places of the hip. Usually, a person
lies on a scanning table exclusively with the patient's foot fixed to the positioning
device. The positioning device provides support for adducting the patient's foot 20

degrees. Adduction can be described as rotating the buyer's limb inward toward the
median axis of one's body, and abduction refers to rotating the person's limb
outward that are caused by the median axis of one's body.
Current devices tend not to seek to fix the positioning of the hip and knee in any
particular location, however. This is unfortunate because the position of a given hip,
knee, and foot greatly affect the femoral
neck's aspect to a DEXA scanning beam.
Consequently, the BMD and BMC
measurements often vary between
scans. Successive hip DEXA scans of the
same patient differentiates by 3-4%,
which is certainly up to three times
greater than a scanning machine's
margin of error. Variations this large
hamper
medical
experts
and
researchers setting about to assess BMD
gains or losses inside the femoral neck.
To calculate these positioning variations, consider that a post-menopausal woman
typically loses only around 1% of BMD every year and current osteoporosis
treatment only increases BMD 0-2%. Hip positioning variations, however, are up to
three times as huge as BMD changes to be measured. This forces doctors and
researchers to attend several months before knowing how to confidently notice a
noticeable trend of BMD loss or gain from data scattered by positioning variations.
The magnitude of positioning variations also requires scientists to improve the total
number of patients studied to produce much result. For all cases, the dimensions of
the positioning variations a change in increased costs and delayed assessments.
In accordance with the foregoing, there exists a require for a hip
apparatus which improves the precision of hip positioning to display
same femoral neck aspect for successive DEXA scans. A very hip
apparatus will reduce the errors because of position variations

positioning
exactly the
positioning
and as a

consequence improve the accuracy of predicting hip fracture and accessing fracture
treatment.
Also included is a necessity of a hip positioning device that is lightweight, simple to
install, easily adjusted to individual anatomical differences, and easy for the
scanning technician to use.
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