How to Prevent Hip Fractures? The 7 Bone-Building Habits That Could Prevent a Fall | Dr. Vonda Wright

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30% of women who fracture their femoral neck will not survive the year. Half of those who do never walk the same way again. The break is almost never where the story starts. It starts twenty years earlier.

In this episode I walk you through the 7 ways I do to keep my patients off my fracture list: why your first DEXA scan belongs at 45, how to read a T-score, what it takes to signal bone to rebuild, and why balance is a skill you can train at any age. You are not falling apart and you are not clumsy. Bone loss is silent until it isn't, which is exactly why we get in front of it.

What we cover:

- Why a hip fracture is rarely an accident, and how bone loss builds for decades.

- Why a DEXA scan at 65 is too late, and how to read your T-score.

- How 60 seconds of balance training a day cuts fall risk after 50.

- Why bone density needs four times body weight for impact, and walking is not enough.

- How to start jumping safely, even with arthritis or a joint replacement.

- Why lower body strength training is what catches you in a stumble.