This procedure is effective for relieving pain from spinal compression fractures and helping to stabilize the fracture. During this procedure: A needle is inserted into the damaged vertebrae.

That creates a wedge-shaped vertebra, which can lead to the stooped posture you might know as a dowager's hump. Doctors call it kyphosis. But most spinal compression fractures happen because of ...

A vertebral compression fracture (VCF) is a break in an individual bone, or vertebra, of the spine that causes the vertebra to collapse. A lumbar VCF affects the lower spine. When a VCF occurs ...

Osteoporotic vertebral fractures ... However, the mechanism behind these fractures remain unclear due to the complex physiological interplay between spinal segments. As such, the fractures ...

In 18 cases, a low energy injury of the spine occurred and in only 2 cases the cause was a high-energy injury (table 2). The fractures occurred in the cervical spine were compression injuries.

A patient who has had a spine fracture and does not take the drugs has a one-in-five chance of developing another fracture in the next year. With the medications, the odds are one in 20.

If someone has a broken back, it means that one or more of the bones that make up the spine has broken. Doctors may also refer to a broken back as a spinal fracture. A broken back can happen for ...

The exclusion criteria were the presence of more than two recent vertebral fractures, spinal cancer, neurologic complications, osteoporotic vertebral collapse of greater than 90%, fracture through ...

In this multicenter trial, we randomly assigned 131 patients who had one to three painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures to undergo either vertebroplasty or a simulated procedure ...

Many people do not have noticeable symptoms of osteoporosis until they experience an injury or fracture, which most often occurs in the spine—known as spinal or vertebrae fractures. Imaging ...