Dear Dr. [last name],
I'm David Brown. I own OsteoStrong Village at Pine, the bone-strength studio at 2000 Village Run Rd, a few minutes from your practice. I'm writing as a neighbour rather than a salesperson, and I'll keep it short.
You already know which of your patients are losing bone, and you write the plan. What I'd like to offer is somewhere for them to go and actually execute the loading part of it.
Bone is living tissue and it responds to load. Once a week, for fifteen minutes, we put a patient's skeleton under brief, controlled, self-generated force at multiples of body weight — the stimulus that signals bone to build — with no impact and a coach beside them throughout. The loading is isometric and self-limited: the patient sets the force against a fixed device, so the ceiling is theirs, not the machine's. That's the whole mechanism, and it's the reason we exist.
The threshold matters more than the effort: research puts hip osteogenesis at around 4.2× body weight, which walking and ordinary resistance training do not reach. What I can tell you about this studio is that our members do. In our repeat-scan group — eleven members, median age 69, ten of them 65 or older — the average leg-press repetition was 8.4× body weight, with a median peak of 9.8× and sustained attendance just under one session a week across five to twelve months. Those are loads rather than outcomes, from eleven self-selected people, and I'd rather give you the number than a claim.
Three things I'd rather you heard from me than found out later:
What I think is genuinely useful to you: for patients who opt in, we send your office a monthly one-page report — force produced on each device, where they are in the loading progression, and any REMS readings they've chosen to share. Real numbers for the chart, not a black box.
If you'd like to judge it for yourself before you send anyone, come and see the floor — watch a session, ask anything, take as long as you want. Or I'll come to you for fifteen minutes. Call or text me directly and we'll find a time.
Either way, thank you for reading this.