🥳 QMU invites local Musselburgh residents and members of the wider community to a free, family-friendly open day filled with fun activities, BBQ snacks and campus tours! Find out more about our Community Open Day taking place on 18th May - ow.ly/RY0650RzyVJ

We've teamed up with BBC Good Food magazine to bring you some bone-healthy recipes, like this chickpea, coconut and broccoli stew! Read here: theros.org.uk/blog/bbc-good-… and find more on the BBC website: bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/health…

Good Food
Photo Credit: ©Good Food magazine

We desperately need more scanners (DXA) and more Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) for those who may be at risk of or have #Osteoporosis - yet services are in a ‘chronic’ state… Royal Osteoporosis Society

Please read and share - it might help friends/followers.

Register today for our self-paced #Frailty eLearning course FREE to all healthcare professionals. Course includes 'Identifying frailty', Understanding and communicating frailty', 'Building systems fit for frailty' and 'Managing those living with frailty' bgs.org.uk/2023F-IF

The CSO(Health)Scotland is delighted to announce the appointment of three new CSO #Innovation Academic Fellows!

The #Fellowship supports early-career NHS Scotland clinicians become future innovation leaders.

Meet them and learn about their projects below ⬇️

Anna Dominiczak David Lowe

Gearóid Brennan PhD RN Alan Simpson 💙 Channel 4 News Thanks Gearóid Brennan PhD RN 😉
Lydia Plus Osteoporosis Project #TikTok 📹 re. #bonehealth #osteoporosis

Karen Matthews Kim Christie
Becca Freeden
QueenMargaretUni
More ℹ️
lydiaosteoporosis.org

New in #Osteoporosis Int: Family/caregiver influence on osteoporosis management for older people: an integrative review rdcu.be/dE5rC

Hot off the press! Impact of #osteoporosis and osteoporosis #medications on fracture #healing . A narrative review’ by the IOF WG Fracture Working Group. Provides practical guidance for clinicians & surgeons caring for patients with fragility fractures.
bit.ly/3JcafNC

Join us for the next free webinar where Prof. Celia Gregson will review how varying levels of deprivation across the UK influence how people recover from hip fractures & will present the results of analyses of different parameters.
Apr. 23 / 5 pm (CEST)
bit.ly/49muN0K

⚠️ Most #delirium in hip fracture is present PRE-OPERATIVELY

➡️ Hip fracture pts should be assessed for delirium on presentation

🌟 Several audits now doing this - more will follow

🔗 boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/10.130…

Fragility Fracture Network (FFN)

New in #Osteoporosis Int: Periprosthetic #fractures are osteoporotic fractures: missed opportunities for osteoporosis diagnosis
#orthopaedic #surgery #arthroplasty
bit.ly/43HSlfe

AI identifies 6 times more patients with vertebral fragility fracture resulting in access to an assessment for osteoporosis.  

medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-a…

You are invited to the upcoming Webinar Entitled:

Continuous Improvement in Orthogeriatrics: an Interdisciplinary Matter

When: 3 April, 2024 at 18.00 - 20.00 CET

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

A Scotland wide reduction in falls rate in hospital against a backdrop of a slow increase in rate of community falls post covid. Improvement programmes can have a sustained effect if we all share, learn and implement SPSP Acute Adult laramitchell

FFN European Regional Congress
10-12 October 2024
Istanbul, Turkey

ffn-rem-europe-2024.org

Osteoporosis in men is vastly under-diagnosed & -treated, despite the growing burden, and high morbidity & mortality. Great to see new international guidelines for the management of #Osteoporosis in #men just published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology !
#Rheumatology
go.nature.com/3IIdj3Y

There is a significant lack of physiotherapy -specific evidence to guide physiotherapists in managing Vertebral Fragility Fracture, according to a recent scoping review!

Link to the article
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Would you like to keep abreast of the latest International #Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) news, including info about new resources, upcoming webinars, member activities and planned events? Sign up for our monthly ‘The 206’ e-Newsletter!
✍️ bit.ly/3UOMy2x

Join our #CaptureTheFracture #webinar ‘NEW INSIGHTS IN OSTEOPOROSIS MANAGEMENT WITHIN FLS’. Prof. P. Geusens will share data showing effectiveness of FLS. Among other topics, he’ll discuss a four-step model for patient evaluation.
DATE: Mar. 21, 17:00 CET
bit.ly/4a6qzuL

New & Open Access in #Osteoporosis International:
Associations between ultra-distal forearm #bone mineral density and incident fracture in women
bit.ly/3T9Yxb5