OsteoStrong® Village at Pine
For Referring Physicians
Your patient is exploring osteogenic loading with us. This isn't a gym, a supplement, or a treatment — it's a supervised, evidence-based way to load the skeleton and trigger the body's own bone-building response. Here's the clinical picture in under three minutes: the mechanism, the safety profile, who it fits, and what we measure.
The Mechanism
OsteoStrong uses a four-device circuit that lets your patient self-generate axial compressive force at multiples of body weight in a controlled, supervised range. This emulates the high-impact loading that builds bone — without the impact or injury risk. The stimulus drives mechanotransduction: the osteocyte-mediated signaling by which mechanical strain triggers osteogenesis. Loading is isometric and self-limited; the patient controls the force against a fixed device, with real-time biofeedback in pounds and multiples of body weight.
Who Can Benefit
- Anyone with osteopenia or osteoporosis
- Pre- and post-menopausal women
- Patients resistant to or declining pharmaceutical treatment
- Deconditioned patients needing strength and balance training
- Anyone with balance issues or fall risk
- Individuals with chronic pain or poor posture
- Patients needing post-physical-therapy strengthening
Positioned Alongside Your Care
Bisphosphonates are often the first line for osteoporosis, but tolerance and long-term concerns complicate that decision for many patients. OsteoStrong is designed to complement pharmacotherapy or serve as a non-pharmacologic option — not replace physician-directed care.
It gives patients who can't or won't take medication a supervised, measurable path, and gives medicated patients an additional loading stimulus.
Safety & Physician Clearance
Because force is self-generated and isometric, the ceiling is set by the patient, not the machine — which is why this is appropriate even for higher-risk patients. No exercise is entirely without risk. We request physician clearance before starting when a patient has any of the following, and we defer entirely to your judgment and any restrictions you specify: recent fracture, active spinal pathology, uncontrolled hypertension or cardiovascular disease, retinal conditions, pregnancy, or recent surgery.
What We Measure
We offer in-center REMS (Radiofrequency Echographic Multi Spectrometry) — a radiation-free ultrasound assessment of bone density and quality — to set a baseline and track change. It is a separate, paid scan: not part of a membership and not bundled into anything. It complements, and does not replace, DXA, and your patient can share every result with your office.
Client-Reported Results
OsteoStrong members have reported BMD increases of up to 14% over 12 months between DXA scans, alongside:
- Improved strength and balance
- Decreased joint pain
- Increased agility and better posture
At this center, measured. Loading only does anything above the threshold, so the fair question is whether members reach it. In our repeat-scan group — 11 members, median age 69, ten of them 65 or older — every one exceeded it on the average repetition, not merely their best:
- 8.4× body weight mean leg-press repetition (range 4.9–16.7×)
- 9.8× median peak load, to 17.9× — against a 4.2× threshold
- Sustained at 0.88 sessions/week across 5–12 months
Loads, not outcomes, from 11 self-selected people; we do not present them as proof of a bone result. Individual results vary.
The Published Research
The threshold. Bone adapts to load magnitude, and below a certain magnitude it does not adapt at all. In 724 adolescents, habitual impacts above ~4.2g were positively associated with femoral neck BMD (β = 0.137, p < 0.001); moderate (2.1–4.2g) and low impacts were not. Deere K, Sayers A, Rittweger J, Tobias JH. J Bone Miner Res 2012;27(9):1887–95.
The loading study. Dr. John Jaquish, who developed these devices, followed 55 postmenopausal women (mean age 69, T-score ≤ −1.0, none on pharmacotherapy) for 24 weeks. Tolerated hip and lower-extremity loading rose 131% over that period and spinal loading 126%. In the DXA subgroup, hip BMD rose 14.9% and spine BMD 16.6% (p < 0.01 for both). It was an observational trial without a control arm, and the standard deviations are wide. On our own equipment the working thresholds are a Growth Trigger at 4.2 multiples of body weight and a Rapid Growth Trigger at 7.2; those are our figures, not this study's. Hunte B, Jaquish J, Huck C. J Osteoporos Phys Act 2015;3(3):146.
The turnover response. In a case report co-authored with a NASA bone physiologist, 24 weeks of weekly 15-minute osteogenic loading raised bone-specific alkaline phosphatase 39% and lowered NTX 41% — formation up, resorption down — though that single healthy subject showed no change at spine or hip. Tsung A, Jupiter D, Jaquish J, Sibonga J. Aerosp Med Hum Perform 2021;92(3):201–206.
Read the Research at OsteoStrong.me →For Your Clearance Note
If you're comfortable, a brief note stating your patient is cleared for supervised, controlled resistance loading — with any restrictions you want observed — is all we need to begin. We're glad to coordinate directly with your office, and you're welcome to come and see the floor for yourself — watch a session, ask anything — so you can advise from firsthand knowledge.