Fletcher Allen, a Vermont university hospital and medical center, serves all of
Vermont and the northern New York region. Located in Burlington, Fletcher Allen is a regional, academic healthcare center and teaching hospital in alliance with the University of Vermont.
Osteoporosis Center
- Osteoporosis Center
- Medical Center Campus
- East Pavilion, Level 5
- 111 Colchester Avenue
Burlington, VT, 05401 - 802-847-8897
- Monday-Friday, 8 AM-5 PM
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The Osteoporosis Center at Fletcher Allen, located in the Ambulatory Care Center on the Medical Center Campus, provides state-of-the-art evaluation and treatment of osteoporosis and related metabolic bone disease.
Osteoporosis (literally meaning "porous bones") is a disease in which your bones become thin, fragile, and more likely to break. If not prevented, or if left untreated, osteoporosis can progress painlessly until a bone breaks – usually the hip, wrist or spine – which can lead to significant pain, disability, and reduced quality of life.
The Osteoporosis Center was founded in 1990 by a faculty group from the University of Vermont College of Medicine. It was the first such center in northern New England. Since that time, the Center has evaluated hundreds of individuals afflicted with bone disease and has performed bone density studies on over 22,000 individuals. The Center strives to provide high quality measurement of bone density by having all provider members certified in bone density interpretation by the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD). After an initial orientation period, all of our technologists have also become certified densitometric technologists.