Professional Athletes with Fractures May Have a “Degraded” Trabecular Bone Score (TBS)

Since the 2000 NIH Consensus Conference, the relationship that Bone Strength  = Bone Quality + Bone Density has been utilized in understanding skeletal resistance to fracture. Many elite athletes suffer fractures, predominantly acute traumatic or stress; many suffer recurrences.

Source: Journal of Clinical Densitometry - January 1, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Clinten P. Edmondson, Christelle Domantay, Patricia E. Schwartz, Elliott N. Schwartz Source Type: research