By choosing to have your bone health assessed, you are taking an important step towards understanding what is happening with your bones now and establishing valuable information that can help you make informed decisions about your health in the future.
Bone health can change quietly over many years, often without pain or obvious symptoms. Your Screen My Bones assessment provides an opportunity to gain a clearer picture of your current bone health, rather than waiting until a fracture or another problem brings it to your attention.
Bone health isn’t just something to think about when you’re older
It is easy to think of osteoporosis and bone health as something that only becomes relevant later in life, but our bones are living tissue and are constantly responding to factors such as nutrition, hormones, physical activity, muscle strength, certain medications and our general health.
Most of us reach our peak bone mass during our 20s. From that point onwards, maintaining the strength and quality of the bone we have built becomes increasingly important.
Understanding your bone health from around the age of 30 can therefore be valuable. It allows you to establish where you are now and gives you information that can help guide decisions around exercise, nutrition and lifestyle throughout the years ahead.
Why people choose to screen their bone health
There are many reasons why someone may decide to have their bone health assessed. You may:
be aged 30 or over and want a clearer understanding of your current bone health
want to establish a baseline that can be monitored over time
be interested in your long term health and longevity
have a family history of osteoporosis or fractures
be approaching, going through or have completed the menopause
have experienced hormonal changes that may affect bone health
have had periods of low body weight, restrictive dieting or poor nutrition
participate in high levels of endurance exercise or sport
have experienced a fracture that seemed disproportionate to the injury
take, or have previously taken, medications that may affect bone health
be using weight loss medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy or Mounjaro, particularly following significant or rapid weight loss
have a health condition that may influence bone density or nutrient absorption
simply want to know more about your bones and how you can support them as you age
Screening may also be appropriate for some people under 30 where there are particular health, lifestyle, hormonal, nutritional or clinical reasons to understand their bone health earlier.
Using Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro or another weight loss medication?
Understanding your bone health may be particularly valuable if you are using medications such as Ozempic (semaglutide), Wegovy, Mounjaro (tirzepatide), or other weight-loss treatments, especially if you have experienced significant or rapid weight loss.
Weight loss can include a reduction in lean muscle mass as well as body fat. Muscle and bone health are closely interconnected: maintaining muscle mass and regularly loading the skeleton through movement and resistance exercise are important factors in maintaining bone strength.
Significant weight loss can also change nutritional intake and reduce the mechanical loading placed on the skeleton. Understanding your bone health can therefore provide useful information alongside monitoring muscle mass, protein and nutrient intake, and physical activity.
This can be particularly relevant for people using weight loss medication who want to protect both muscle and bone health as their body composition changes.
What will your assessment tell you?
Using Echolight REMS technology, the assessment looks at bone mineral density together with indicators relating to bone quality, helping to provide a more detailed picture of bone strength and fragility without the use of ionising radiation.
REMS (Radiofrequency Echographic Multi Spectrometry) is an advanced ultrasound based technology that has been studied against DXA, the established clinical method of measuring bone mineral density.
Because REMS does not use ionising radiation, it also provides an opportunity to assess and monitor your bone health over time without radiation exposure.
What happens at your appointment?
Your appointment will take approximately 30 minutes, and no referral is required.
Following your scan, you will receive your results together with lifetime access to your personal Screen My Bones dashboard, which includes educational resources, personalised guidance and ongoing bone health support.
Your results can also provide a useful baseline against which future assessments can be compared, helping you see how your bone health changes over time.
The scan is only the beginning
Having your bones assessed gives you something incredibly valuable: information.
Your results can help you better understand your bone health and make more informed decisions about movement, resistance exercise, nutrition, muscle strength, hormones, recovery and other factors that can contribute to maintaining strong bones throughout life.
The philosophy behind Screen My Bones is simple:
Don’t wait for your bone health to lead you.
We look forward to welcoming you to Optimal Health Clinic for your Screen My Bones assessment.
Want to understand the science?
For anyone interested in learning more about REMS technology and the research behind bone-health assessment, we have included some of the published research below.
REMS compared with DXA in more than 4,000 women aged 30–90
A large European multicentre study evaluating REMS against DXA in the assessment of osteoporosis.
REMS bone-health assessment in men aged 30–90
Research involving 603 men that found strong correlations between REMS and DXA measurements at the lumbar spine and femoral neck.
REMS and the prediction of fragility fractures – five-year follow-up
Research investigating the ability of REMS to identify women at increased risk of fragility fractures over a five-year period.
2026 systematic review and meta-analysis comparing REMS with DXA
A review bringing together evidence from 17 studies and thousands of participants, examining the relationship between REMS and DXA measurements at the femoral neck and lumbar spine.
Read the 2026 research on PubMed
