The scale can't tell
muscle from fat.

The InBody 270 is a medical body composition analyzer that measures fat mass, fat-free mass, body fat percentage, skeletal muscle mass and its segmental distribution, total body water including intracellular and extracellular water, and basal metabolic rate. At Summit Health Clinic in Springfield, Missouri a scan costs $50, takes about sixty seconds, and is included at every visit for patients on a treatment plan.

$50 per scan at Summit Health Clinic if you are not on one of our treatment plans. If you are a weight loss, testosterone, hormone, or peptide therapy patient, scans are included at your initial evaluation and at every follow-up visit at no additional charge.

No. The scanner is open to the public. Athletes, gym members, and people getting their medical care elsewhere use it regularly, including people on GLP-1 medications prescribed by another clinic.

Validation research reports correlations of r = 0.97 to 0.99 between InBody 270 values and DXA. There is a systematic offset: multi-frequency BIA tends to read body fat percentage about 4 percentage points lower than DXA, and fat mass about 2.9 kg lower. One study in exercise-trained adults found no statistically significant difference between the InBody 270 and DXA on any body composition measure. Practically, treat your number as slightly conservative against a DXA, and treat the change between your own scans as reliable.

Repeatability is the strongest property of this device. Published test-retest reliability for multi-frequency BIA is an intraclass correlation of 0.998 or higher for percent body fat and 0.999 or higher for fat-free mass index, with same-day repeat scans differing by only 0.0 to 0.2 kg and between-day scans by 0.1 to 0.7 kg. That means a change larger than roughly a kilogram across scans taken under similar conditions is very likely a real change rather than measurement noise.

Bioelectrical impedance works by measuring how easily a small current passes through your tissue, and muscle conducts well because it holds water while fat does not. That makes the reading sensitive to how hydrated you are. It is why we ask you to scan under similar conditions each time: similar time of day, normally hydrated, not straight after a hard workout or a large meal.

Take off your shoes and socks. That is genuinely it. For the most comparable results across scans, aim for similar conditions each time: normally hydrated, not immediately after a heavy meal, and not straight after a hard workout.

The scan itself runs about sixty seconds. You stand on the platform holding two handles, fully clothed. Add a few minutes for your provider to go through the results with you.

The InBody 270 uses bioelectrical impedance analysis, which is fast, repeatable, and much more informative than a scale or BMI. It is not equivalent to a DEXA scan. Readings shift somewhat with hydration and recent meals, so we weight the trend across repeated scans more heavily than any single absolute number.

It is painless. The device passes a very small electrical current through your body, which most people do not feel at all. Bioelectrical impedance devices are generally not recommended for people with an implanted pacemaker or defibrillator, so let us know if that applies to you.

Because not all weight lost is fat. A systematic review of semaglutide trials found lean mass reductions ranging from almost zero to 40% of total weight lost, depending on the study. Losing a large share of muscle slows your metabolism and makes regain easier. Scanning monthly tells you which of those outcomes you are having while there is still time to change it.

Yes. Call us to arrange it. Sports teams, gyms, and workplace groups can be scheduled outside normal appointment slots.