Bone Disease

Because bone disease can have so many causes, our UR Medicine Bone Health team uses the most advanced diagnostic tools available to develop a complete understanding of your condition, its causes, and the path we’ll take to help you.

Your care team starts with a detailed health history and physical exam—looking at everything from bone mass changes and bone growth patterns to fracture risk and broken bone incidents. Tests may include:

• Bone density test (DEXA scan) to measure bone mass.

• Imaging (X-ray, CT, MRI) to view bone structure, detect tumors or fractures.

• Blood and urine tests to assess metabolic or genetic contributors. 

Once we understand your condition—whether it’s osteoporosis, juvenile osteoporosis, osteogenesis imperfecta (“brittle bone disease”), or disorders affecting calcium and hormone metabolism—we’ll build an individualized plan that may include:

• Medications, injections, or infusions to support bone mass and strength.

• Lifestyle and dietary guidance to boost bone mass and reduce bone loss. Maintaining bone tissue through tailored nutrition and exercise is essential.

• Coordinated care across specialties—endocrinology, orthopaedics, rheumatology, nephrology, genetics—to treat underlying causes.

Common Conditions We Treat

We manage a broad spectrum of bone conditions, including:

• Osteoporosis & osteopenia

• Metabolic disorders like hyperparathyroidism and Paget’s disease

• Genetic conditions such as brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta)

• Infection-related bone issues like osteomyelitis

• Bone complications from organ transplant, endocrine or kidney disorders

• Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis, and Rheumatoid Arthritis

The area’s most extensive bone health program. UR Medicine's Center for Bone Health is one of only a handful in the country that combine total orthopaedic care with the treatment of metabolic bone disease for patients of all ages.

Physicians at the forefront of science. UR Medicine Bone Health providers have expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of all adult and pediatric metabolic bone diseases—diseases that affect bone strength.

The specialists in UR Medicine Orthopaedics & Physical Performance are experts in fracture care, the first to spot and treat fractures that are often the initial symptoms of metabolic bone disease. In addition, we are the only program in the Rochester metropolitan area and surrounding region that can diagnose and treat children as young as 5.

Our teams bring together pediatric endocrinology, orthopaedics, nephrology, rheumatology, endocrine surgery, and medical genetics experts to provide complete care.