This talk will review the updates on current ISCD Position guidelines 2023-2024.

The fracture risk assessment tool, FRAX ®, was released in 2008. It provides country-specific tools for estimating personalized 10-year probability of hip and major osteoporotic fracture (hip, clinical spine, distal forearm, and proximal humerus). Several adjustments have been developed that extend the range of risk factors considered by FRAX, now available through FRAXplus (www.FRAXplus.org). Meanwhile, there is ongoing research that will inform the next iteration of the FRAX tool.

This course will focus on the future outlook for measuring bone health and fracture risk prediction. We will utilize data on the clinical utility and available evidence supporting these modalities.

This on-demand module will explain why using least significant change to interpret bone mineral density is a professional standard and provide associated documentation. Additionally, step by step instruction on implementing and performing a precision assessment in clinical practice is described.

This activity was designed to allow learners to understand when vitamin D is helpful in optimizing bone health, which preparations are the best to use, and which dosing regimen is most advantageous. Attendees can listen to a clear lecture by one of the leaders in the field of vitamin D and understand the state of the art of how and when to dose vitamin D most effectively.

This activity will give an update on diagnosis and indications for surgery with a focus on bone. This activity was designed to allow learners to understand how to approach which patients to refer for surgery for hyperparathyroidism.

This activity was designed to help learners understand how to diagnose and manage rare bone diseases such as hypophosphatemic rickets, hypophosphatasia and osteogenesis imperfecta.

This activity was designed to allow learners to understand the relationship between radius BMD and overall fracture risk as well as the impact of wrist fractures on skeletal health. Attendees can listen to a cogent, clear, concise and well-referenced lecture after which they will understand how the role of wrist BMD in assessing skeletal fragility and predicting risk of future fractures, and its role in osteoporosis treatment decisions.

This activity will address strategies for technologists upon how to deal with challenging patient anatomy, particularly in situations where automated analysis fails and suboptimal positioning on DXA scans.

This activity was designed so attendees would receive an advanced overview of how to assess vertebral attenuation with reanalysis of previously acquired CTs that included the area of the lumbar spine (opportunistic CT).