Musculoskeletal imaging in preventive medicine

Abstract

The aim is to review the modalities in musculoskeletal imaging with view on the prognostic impact for the patient's and for social outcome and with view on three major fields of preventive medicine: nutrition and metabolism, sports, and patient education. The added value provided by preventive imaging is (1) to monitor bone health and body composition with a broad spectrum of biomarkers, (2) to detect and quantify variants or abnormalities of nerves, muscles, tendons, bones, and joints with a risk of overuse, rupture, or fracture, and (3) to develop radiology reports from the widely used narrative format to structured text and multimedia datasets. The awareness problem is a term for describing the underreporting and the underdiagnosis of fragility fractures in osteoporosis.

Keywords: Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry; High-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HRpqCT); Imaging biomarkers; Kinetic chains; Neurography; Osteoarthritis; Osteoporosis; Prevention; Rheumatoid arthritis; Sarcopenia; Structured reporting; Tendinosis.