A DEXA body scan gives you a more complete view of your body composition than weight, BMI, or a standard bathroom scale can provide.
Using low-dose dual-energy X-ray technology, a DEXA scan can measure your total body fat, lean muscle mass, fat distribution, visceral fat, and bone mineral measurements. Instead of relying on estimates, you receive objective information that can help you understand where you are today and track meaningful changes over time.
At Inertia Medical, we provide DEXA body scans near Cincinnati for people who want clearer insight into their health, fitness progress, weight-management results, muscle development, or long-term wellness.
We don’t simply hand you a report filled with numbers. We help you understand what those numbers mean and how they may relate to your goals.
Our office is located in Fairfield, serving patients throughout Cincinnati, West Chester, Liberty Township, Mason, Hamilton, and surrounding communities.
DEXA scans are highly reproducible, but food intake, hydration, exercise, and other factors can temporarily affect body-composition measurements. Our recommendations are intended to give you the most reliable baseline and, especially for follow-up scans, allow us to compare results under similar conditions. If you cannot meet every recommendation, you are still a candidate for scanning. Simply let us know what was different so we can direct you on having consistent conditions for our follow-up scan.
Food: Avoid eating for 3–4 hours before your scan. An overnight fast is not necessary. A large meal or binge the day before can increase body weight and gastrointestinal contents and may introduce additional variability.
Diet: Consuming high amounts of carbohydrates can artificially increase lean-mass measurements. Maintain a routine eating pattern before testing, and ensure repeat evaluations take place under comparable dietary conditions for optimal comparison.
Hydration: Arrive normally hydrated. Avoid intentionally dehydrating yourself or consuming unusually large amounts of fluid before the scan. Significant changes in hydration can affect the measurement of lean mass.
Exercise: Avoid strenuous exercise for approximately 12 hours before your scan. Exercise can temporarily alter muscle glycogen, tissue water, and fluid distribution, potentially affecting lean-mass measurements.
Clothing: Wear lightweight clothing with minimal or no metal.
Consistency: For repeat scans, try to duplicate your previous scan conditions including approximate time of day, fasting status, hydration, and exercise, to the best of our ability.
Food & hydration: No fasting is required. Eat and drink normally.
Calcium supplements: Avoid calcium supplements and calcium-containing antacids for 24 hours before your scan, when possible. Normal dietary calcium is fine. Calcium remaining in the digestive tract can interfere with the measurement.
Exercise: No specific exercise restriction is generally required for bone-density testing.
Clothing: Wear comfortable clothing with minimal or no metal. Gowns are available if needed.
Recent imaging: If you have had recent imaging involving barium, oral contrast, or nuclear medicine/radiologic contrast, within the last 2 weeks, your scan must be postponed as residual material can interfere with DXA measurements.
Unable to follow the recommendations? You can generally still be scanned. Let us know what was different so we can document the conditions and determine whether the scan should proceed or be rescheduled.
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