Course begins April 20th, 2024 (Join any time!)
Saturday 10:00am - 2:00pm PST.
Can't make the live class? No worries, you will receive recordings and notes of all LIVE presentations.

This online course includes 20 hours of LIVE presentations, recordings,
case studies, practical exercises interpreting labs,
and notes for interpreting bone density scans and lab reports, bone
nutrition, and digestive health for you to educate your patients/clients, or
for you to better understand your own diagnosis. There will be plenty of
time for Q&A to answer your questions and to go over case studies.

How you'll benefit:

Gain practical skills and knowledge from real case studies interpreting lab results and DXAs

• Increase your accuracy in analyzing DXA scans
• interpret vertebral fracture assessments (VFA)
• Increase your skills if you have x-ray reports and relevant x-ray images
• How to assess an individuals fracture risk
• View and analyze Trabecular Bone Score (TBS) reports
• Increase ability to identify comorbidity or secondary conditions leading to a patient's bone loss
• Know which labs to order for getting to possible root causes of bone loss
• Assess whether or not an individual is getting all the nutrients needed for healthy bone tissue
• Alternative options to help rebuild and slow down bone loss
• Sarcopenia/muscle wasting and the connection with osteoporosis
• Exercise programs that will fit individual cases
• Special needs for athletes to protect their bone health
• Learn about commonly used medications, including hormone therapy and
  commonly prescribed bone medications, both anti-resorptive and anabolic.

Course begins Saturday, April 20th, 2024, 10-2 pm PST

• Held in 4 parts in 4-hour sessions—Saturdays and Thursdays. An additional 4 hours of videos with notes will be provided.
• Saturday, April 20, 10:00am - 2:00pm PST
• Thursday, April 25, 10:00am - 2:00pm PST
• Thursday, May 2, 10:00am - 2:00pm PST
• Saturday, May 18, 10:00 - 2:00pm PST
• An additional date in June will be added on a Thursday or Saturday

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Reference Materials:

You will be provided with notes for the course. The companion text
for this course is Dr. Lani's No-Nonsense Bone Health Guide, which you
can purchase here on the website, or other popular outlets.

Who Can Take This Course:

This course is recommended for: nurses, doctors, medical
assistants, physical therapists, nutritionists, coaches, exercise
trainers and wellness industry professionals.

Are you a health practitioner? Understanding bones
is important for those of us in the health field, and this course is
designed to give you an overview of osteoporosis, as well as nuanced
information on bone health. Each case is unique: one person may have
osteoporosis due to an eating disorder, another might have an underlying
thyroid or parathyroid issue. For people who menstruate it may be due
to estrogen loss at menopause. And still, for others osteoporosis can be
a linked to a digestive issue, physical activity, kidney problems, or
genetics. This course includes material on common causes, warning signs,
testing, and how to interpret bone density scans, images.

Are you interested in bones, but not a health practitioner?
This course is still for you. My goal is educate as many people as I
can about bone health and I work hard to make my courses accessible, and
informative. Please note, this is not an introductory course.
We will be covering advanced material and the course will be geared
towards health practitioners who need to understand osteoporosis to
serve their patients. However, I always incorporate stories, examples,
and resources for you to bridge knowledge gaps. You will learn about
your skeleton, bone health, and how to advocate when facing an
osteoporosis case.

Certificate of Completion

This course does not provide continuing education credits. However,
for those interested you are eligible to take a test provided by Dr.
Lani for a Certificate of Completion.

Are you interested in offering an educational/consulting program for
your patients? Dr. Simpson will offer a one hour webinar on intake forms
for those that are interested at no extra cost.

Course Hours and Topics
In the coming weeks a detailed syllabus will be provided

1. Osteoporosis Diagnosis – Understanding bone health
2. Bone density testing (DXA) – how to read DXA images to verify whether or not a bone density test is accurate
3. Fracture Risk Assessment Tools: FRAX, Garvan and other future fracture risk models
4. Bone Density Testing in Depth - 3 hours
5. Trabecular Bone Score for bone quality assessment
6. Fractures and what they tell us: low trauma, no trauma, stress fractures and insufficiency fractures
7. Lab Testing for Bone Part One: Basic screening tests
8. Lab Testing for Bone Part Two: Learning about bone turnover markers and active bone loss
9. Hormones: At menopause and 5 years post up to 20% bone loss can occur due to estrogen loss
10. Osteoporosis Medications: What are they and how do they work?
11. Alternative treatment options: What works, what doesn’t work
12. The importance of digestive health for our bones
13. Fight Fractures with Food Part One: The core to any treatment program including digestive issues such as malabsorption
14. Fight Fractures with Food Part two
15. Exercise and Osteoporosis: What exercise program is right for
    osteoporosis – this is best defined by understanding how at risk a
    patient is to fracture. Strength training and impact are best for bone.
16. Case Studies: Learn from some case studies how I handled and diagnosed cases – this is just the beginning.

Additional Info for Health Practitioners:

Continuing Education Credits: CE credits are not available at this time.

Certification of completion will be offered to those interested in
developing their own patient program following passing a test provided
by Dr. Lani

Ongoing Case study meeting group: this is a possibility if there is ample interest

Patient questionnaires and other documents will be provided to you to start your own educational and diagnostic program.