What You Can (and Can’t) Do to Improve Your Bone Health featuring Osteoboost Health
But we may be on the brink of a new era in preventative treatment. There is promising new research that looks at a “biological switch,” normally triggered by exercise, that helps keep bones strong—offering a potential path for drugs that might mimic physical activity. New screening technologies (based on bone flexibility rather than mineral density) may be able to catch issues earlier than before. And in 2024, the FDA cleared the Osteoboost, a new wearable device for osteopenia. Fitted like a belt, it delivers vibration to the hips and lower spine. Bone is constantly renewing itself, spurred on by specialized cells that break down old bone while other cells build new mineral in its place. Those cells are highly responsive to mechanical stress—the reason weight-bearing exercise strengthens the skeleton—and the device is designed to imitate that signal through subtle vibration.
