Our Parramatta DEXA Bone Density Scanner
New Exercise Physiology Consults packaged with Body Composition Testing
Our exercise physiology initial consults now incorporate Body Composition Scans as part of the consult.
The total consult will now last 60 minutes and included in this is a thorough assessment outlining your goals, expectations and important outcome measures as well as a reduced fee body composition scan.
Getting baseline measures of where you are at just like having blood tests or jumping on the scales are essential.
We hope you appreciate this new initiative which will allow you to achieve your goals sooner.
New Information Sheet on Akylosing Spondylitis
We’ve just put together an information sheet with the website information on Ankylosing Spondylitis summarised in a printable pdf format.
We hope it will be of use to our patients and the wider public in answering some questions regarding this under-diagnosed condition.
New Refracture Prevention Program
It is well recognised that people who suffer an osteoporotic fracture (minimal trauma fracture) are then at a greatly increased risk of getting further fractures. These patients often present at an hospital emergency room and are treated with surgery or a splint. When the fracture has been set, they are then often just allowed home. The possibility of osteoporosis is not thought of or investigated for, and therefore, not treated.
If you believe you may have suffered a fracture through minimal trauma, BJC Health, at our Parramatta site, has developed a comprehensive Refracture Prevention Program to address your needs.
This unique program embraces our Connected Care approach, encompassing;
- diagnosis
- medical assessment
- DXA testing
- osteoporosis education
- falls risk analysis followed by gait stability improvement
- dietary advice
- continued monitoring
This program is unique in our local community, offering a solution for a large hole in the local public health service, without continuing to wait for either State or Federal Health authorities to act.
If you believe you might have suffered an osteoporotic fracture, you owe it to yourself to consult your doctor and see if you would be a candidate for the Refracture Prevention Program.
iAnkylosingSpondylitis – a cutting-edge tool for iPhone and iPad – is here!
Main menu of iAnkylosingSpondylitis
iAnkylosingSpondylitis, a free patient education application, and in its professional form, a clinical aid for professional care-givers is now available from the iTunes store.
Developed from the concept of our BJC Health Director Dr Irwin Lim, and by Dr John Hart and his team at Anatomate-Apps, this cutting-edge application contains much information about the Angkylosing Spondylitis. It’s aim is to help patients’ understanding of the condition in order to increase their participation in its treatment. Clinicians benefit through increased efficiency and accuracy in diagnosis and treatment of this condition, and easier communication with the patient of its features.
Included in the free version;
- symptoms
- incidence
- genetics
- physical therapy
- pharmalogical management
- 30 exercise animations
Scans in iAnkylosingSpondylitis
In addition, the pro-version features;
- audio-visual 3D animations of normal anatomy of the cervical and lumbar spine and sacro-iliac joint
- audio-visual 3D animations of progressions to ankylosis
- 50 additional exercise animations
- history, physical examination, printable assessment tools, differential diagnosis, laboratory studies, histology
- a medical imaging library of over 400 XRays, CTs, and MRIs
Many thanks to our BJC Health team (Errol Lim, Roberto Russo & Herman Lau) and especially the Anatomate-Apps crew for their 8 months of hard work bringing this app to fruition.
BJC Health also wants to specially thank Karen Howard & Abbott Pharmaceuticals for providing sponsorship to help Anatomate-Apps fund development.
