The Specialist in Lafayette (dexa scan & proteus motion)

Tulane med school does them for free if you’re okay with the data collected being used for an osteoporosis study. When I did it, they gave me a $25 Amazon gift card for doing it. Not sure if that’s still the case.
Tulane Osteoporosis Study

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How much of this is useful right before or in early puberty? I can see it maybe mid-puberty, but it feels like no hair in the armpits would be a bit early. I can't tell from their site what they focus on for teenagers.

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depends...are you training them now? i.e. are they lifitng? because if not, then dont worry about it as you can get the same trainign effect with very simple plan of med ball throwing, sprinting, db vertical and broad jumps and simple weight training even before puberty

like my 9/12/13 year olds lift and have for a while. Now it would not be useful info for my 9 year old...he weighs 70 lbs...but for my 12 year old who has been training for a while...yea its useful.

you can do the same thing with med ball and a tape measure if you understand how to do a velocity profile. but for me its very easy to have that done on the proteus and it tells me what i need to program to bring his weaknesses up


but remember....unless they are outrageously strong, can never go wrong with just getting stronger because all the velocity zones are just a percentage of max strength. Getting stronger relative to bodyweight, putting on muscle and working on movement quality through crawls and other basic movement patterns goes a long long ways

but i will say for a HS athelte...it can help alot. especially if already strong.