I keep remembering changing my stride as a child as I walked to school with the words, “Step on a crack, break your back,” echoing in my head. But breaking your back through a vertebral fracture increasingly is a real danger for postmenopausal women.
New York Times reporter Jane E. Brody reported that a quarter of postmenopausal women can face having a compression of the front of a spinal column vertebra. Furthermore, two in every five women by the age of 80 have had one or more of these...
There are two procedures available to repair various types of compression fractures of the spine. If you are looking for a minimally... Read more »
I was just learning a bit about a relatively new procedure to correct vertebral fractures called vertebroplasty. It's an outpatient... Read more »
Just saw this interesting study in a Chilean medical journal (the abstract is in English) about how common vertebral fractures are in... Read more »
There is new research in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research that the process of single-energy vertebral fracture assessment (VFA),... Read more »
The most common location for an osteoporosis-related fracture to occur is the vertebrae. These painful back injuries can occur... Read more »
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