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Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
  • 49 recommendations
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

Support your group and raise awareness with badges

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
  • 24 recommendations
  • Hi everyone. We added a new feature today that you can use to support your groups and the organizations that sponsor them, and get the word out about the causes that are important to you. If you visit ...

New feature - See what you've replied to

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted April 25, 2008
  • 18 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We just added a feature that many of you have requested - a list of all of the posts that you have replied to. To get to your list, all you need to do is: 1. Sign in 2. Click "Me" in the ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
  • 16 recommendations
  • Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
  • 14 recommendations
  • Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...

New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
  • 13 recommendations
  • I am pleased to announce that we have updated Inspire to support video. You can now share a video of yourself, videos that you find inspirational or informative, and more. I've included one of myself ...

Welcome!

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted March 13, 2008
  • 12 recommendations
  • I am pleased to present Inspire 2.0 -- the result of many months of fun and hard work. We have made numerous improvements to your community, the vast majority of which are ideas that came from you! We ...

Changes that you have requested are on the way

Beth
  • By Beth · Posted March 28, 2008
  • 9 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We've been hard at work on many of the great suggestions that you've sent us. This week we've been cooking up some changes to the group home page, and hope to make them public very soon ...

New feature - additional reply notifications

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted May 5, 2008
  • 8 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We just added a new feature to help you follow the conversations that you are participating in. You will now get a notification whenever someone replies directly to one of your replies ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
  • 7 recommendations
  • At Inspire, we think about privacy all the time. Virtually every web site has a privacy policy; you can read ours here: http://www.inspire.com/about/privacy/. But simply following the letter of a privacy ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 1, 2008
  • 7 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 10, 2008
  • 6 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...

Bone Growth

HSB
  • By HSB · Posted July 7, 2008
  • 5 recommendations
  • Does bone continue to grow while you're taking fosamax or any of the others? I've read that it is the process of bone breaking down that actually spurs the new growth ...

New feature - profile completeness gauge

Tasha
  • By Tasha · Posted June 12, 2008
  • 5 recommendations
  • Greetings from TeamInspire! I'm your friendly neighborhood designer, here to tell you about some new features. You might notice that today we revamped your member homepage - https://www.inspire.com/member-home.pl ...

Social Aspects of Osteoporosis

Osteo_Staff_Journal
  • By Osteo_Staff_Journal · Posted April 9, 2008
  • 4 recommendations
  • Of all the ways in which osteoporosis affects quality of life, the social consequences may be the least recognized and yet the most demoralizing of them all. Managing social limitations is much easier ...

A Rude Awakening

Flutterby
  • By Flutterby · Posted March 14, 2008
  • 4 recommendations
  • I looked at myself in the mirror and saw a strong, interesting lady. I didn't realize that my body's support system was slowing dissolving away. Sure, I felt aches and pains, nothing new, right? Then ...

Alternative treatments for Osteoporosis

Denise05
  • By Denise05 · Posted March 7, 2008
  • 3 recommendations
  • Last year I learned that I have osteoporosis. It's been quite upsetting, especially considering the fact that I have no family history of osteoporosis and I'm only 48 years old. My doctor has recommended ...

Emotional Issues and Osteoporosis

Osteo_Staff_Journal
  • By Osteo_Staff_Journal · Posted March 6, 2008
  • 3 recommendations
  • When people first hear that they have osteoporosis, their feelings may range from concerned to worried or even anxious. In many cases, people learn they have osteoporosis after breaking a bone from a ...

Apples, Oranges and Osteoporosis

MahaHaha
  • By MahaHaha · Posted August 24, 2008
  • 2 recommendations
  • Although we share the same Dx, osteoporosis seems to have enough “individuality” to make comparison tricky. Primary and secondary causes are obvious examples of differences in osteoporosis between people ...

NOF Offers Exercise DVD/Video

Osteo_Staff_Journal
  • By Osteo_Staff_Journal · Posted August 14, 2008
  • 2 recommendations
  • Because of the interest of many of you in exercise DVDs and videos, this is to let you know about NOF’s Be BoneWise™ Exercise DVD and VHS video. This 40-minute DVD/video provides a weight-bearing and ...

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