DEXA Body Composition Scanning, the Potentials for Patients and Imaging Centers
There are many objectives of the medical profession. One of those many important objectives is to provide improvement to the patient’s health with every possible way with the machinery in hand. However, sometimes it’s really easy to overlook the potential applications our equipment offers us. One of these cases is related to bone density scanners or the DEXA scanners. DEXA scanners are on the rise in recent times, especially. So here in this article, we will go in-depth of the DEXA scanners and understand what the missed potentials of these scanners that we can try using are.
The missed potentials of DEXA scanners:
The scale that DEXA scanners use to check your bone density can help you to monitor the changes in your weight. However, it does not help you to know what does the weight consist of. A DEXA scan of the whole body of the patient will scan the measures of water, minerals, fat and protein of the body and then separate it into the percentages of fat mass and the fat-free mass. This is a very important fact to make a planning or goal settings for lifestyle changes such as diets or exercise. This planning is very vital for improved health too. Although there are a lot of ways such as MRI scans or skin old callipers that can help you measuring body fat, each of them possesses errors. DEXA however, is the most accurate one to measure body fat.
The real reason behind overlooking this amazing feature:
DEXA scanners are primarily used in tracking mineral density in our bones. It also helps to monitor the progress of osteoporosis. Medicare guidelines recommend daily bone density scans for post-menopausal women. The DEXA scanners come with in-built exclusive bone scanning capabilities. If the setting is right, this traffic will occupy the available time of the system.
The DEXA scanners used to get the bone density results are usually covered with the patient’s insurance, however, the DEXA body scans are not. Sometimes, you may need a prescription for the DEXA body comp scans.
Where does the opportunity hide?
DEXA body comp scans are thriving in the fitness area. Sometimes the providers of these scans are charging the patients hugely to know the composition of their body. However, the question is if body comp-capable DEXA scanners are currently in traditional settings like they are in the imaging centers and such other places can offer body composition tests
When some study subjects got the results in their hand, researchers were amazed to know that it became a benchmark in chart one progress in nutrition/fitness programs.
So, here is your answer. You can now easily monitor the fat of your body and act accordingly to lose some of it. But where to do these Dexa tests? Well, if you are at Morristown, New Jersey, there isn’t a better place than the Radiology Center at Harding. Check it out. It is the solution to all your radiology needs.
