Advanced Body Composition Scan in Leicester

A Body Composition Scan is a detailed, non-invasive assessment that looks beyond standard body weight to analyse the precise makeup of your body, including fat mass, muscle tissue, bone, and water balance.

By utilising high-tech diagnostic tools, these assessments deliver accurate, reproducible numbers that help you understand your baseline health, optimise your nutrition or fitness plans, and track meaningful physical changes over time.

“A DEXA scan tells you where you are. An InBody scan tells you which way you’re going.”

We offer both technologies because they serve distinct, complementary purposes in your health journey.

What Your Scan Measures

Depending on whether you undergo a DEXA Scan or an InBody Bioimpedance Analysis (BIA), your assessment measures:

• Total Body Weight & Body Mass Index (BMI)
• Bone Mineral Content & Density (DEXA)
• Muscle & Fat Mass Analysis (segmental lean mass and fat distribution across arms, legs, and trunk)
• Body Fat Percentage (distinguishing between subcutaneous fat and deep visceral fat around internal organs)
• Percentage of Muscle Mass & Muscle Quality
• Body Water Composition & Fluid Distribution (extracellular and intracellular water balance)
• Cellular Health & Phase Angle Measurement (InBody BIA metric providing insight into cellular integrity and hydration state)

The objective data gained from these scans provides a true reflection of your unique physiology, without relying on generalised population averages or empirical guesswork.

Whether you are optimising athletic performance, managing weight loss, recovering from injury, or monitoring metabolic health, these precise measurements empower you and your healthcare team to make informed, smart choices about your long-term health.

These include the following usages:

Body composition analysis provides precise, reproducible data that goes far beyond traditional body weight. By capturing detailed measurements of muscle, fat, fluid balance, and bone, these scans serve a wide range of health, fitness, and medical applications:

1. Rehabilitation & Post-Surgical Recovery:

• Track Recovery Progress: Offers a non-invasive, precise method to gather objective data on muscle mass retention, limb symmetry, and nutritional status throughout recovery.
• Guide Treatment Decisions: Helps clinicians and patients tailor rehabilitation protocols at any stage of injury or post-surgical recovery.

2. Metabolic & Organ Health Monitoring

• Visceral & Subcutaneous Fat Tracking: Utilises dedicated results sheets to track changes in deep abdominal (visceral) fat and surface (subcutaneous) fat over time.
• Renal & Dialysis Management: Provides critical insights into fluid balance, cellular hydration, and nutritional status for renal and dialysis patients.

3. Athletic Performance & Fitness Optimisation

• Performance Enhancement: Assists athletes and sports professionals in fine-tuning body composition to optimise power-to-weight ratios and endurance.
• Injury Prevention: Identifies muscle imbalances and structural asymmetries early to reduce the risk of sports-related injuries.
• Nutrition & Training Feedback: Monitors real-time physiological adaptations when starting new dietary interventions or structured exercise programs.

4. Age-Related & Preventive Care

• Sarcopenia & Fall Risk Screening: Evaluates muscle mass levels and bilateral muscle distribution in older adults to identify early signs of muscle wasting and reduce the risk of falls and fractures.
• Baseline Goal Setting: Establishes an accurate, individual baseline to set realistic health milestones and evaluate the true effectiveness of medical or wellness treatments over time.

Which should you have?

In practice, most people are best served by both. A DEXA scan at the start to establish exactly where you are, InBody every few weeks to follow the trend, and a repeat DEXA at four to six months to confirm what has actually changed.

Book DEXA if this is your first assessment, you are over 60, you are making an HRT or bone health decision, you are starting GLP-1 treatment, or you want a definitive answer.

Book InBody if you already have a baseline and want to check your direction of travel.

How to prepare

For InBody, results are only comparable if conditions are consistent. Ideally, scan at a similar time of day under similar circumstances, not immediately after exercise, and well hydrated but not having just drunk a large volume. Shoes and socks off.

For DEXA, wear clothing without metal fastenings over the hips and lower back. No fasting is needed. Let us know if you have had a barium study or contrast scan in the past week.

Who this is for

• Weight management and GLP-1 patients. Rapid weight loss costs muscle as well as fat. Scanning at baseline and again at four to six months shows whether what you are losing is the right tissue and is one of the few ways to catch excessive lean mass loss early. [Link: weight management]
• Anyone on testosterone replacement. Objective measurement of lean mass and fat distribution over time.
  Adults over 60. Appendicular lean mass is the measure used to identify sarcopenia, which is treatable and much easier to address early.
• Athletes and serious trainers. Regional lean mass, symmetry, and precise tracking through a training block.
• Oncology and functional medicine patients. Objective monitoring of lean mass through treatment.