NASA-inspired low-vibration belt lowers bone fracture risk – Lake County Record

For some, Osteoboost might initially evoke TV informercials for gadgets that promise to shock people’s abdominal muscles into six-pack formation while they sit, or mid-20th century contraptions that professed to jiggle away fat without exercise.

But this device, a low-vibration belt that resembles a fanny pack, received approval last year from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It just hit the market as the first and only non-drug intervention for osteopenia–low bone density affecting mostly older people, especially postmenopausal women.

Osteoboost, a wearable prescription device, is the first and only drug-free FDA-approved intervention for low bone density. Photographed on May 27, 2025, in Palo Alto, Calif. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)

Developed by Redwood City-based Osteoboos