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From American Journal of Roentgenology
Diagnosis of Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures: Importance of Recognition and Description by Radiologists Posted 10/06/2004 (full text) Leon Lenchik; Lee F. Rogers; Pierre D. Delmas; Harry K. Genant

Most of patients experiencing an osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture remain asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic; however, a large number of these patients do experience significant pain resulting in decreased quality of life and disability. Conventional medical treatment for these patients includes pain medication, activity limitation, physical therapy, and possibly, bracing. Vertebroplasty...

All 25 women (mean age 75.0, SD 4.7) with hip fracture as inclusion fracture had no significant changes in HRQOL between two and seven years and did not differ from the reference group regarding HRQOL after seven years. The vertebral group had significantly lower values for bodily pain, vitality, role-emotional...

Fragility vertebral fractures often are associated with chronic back pain controlled by analgesic compounds. Capacitive coupling electrical stimulation is a type of electrical stimulation technology approved by the US FDA to noninvasively enhance fracture repair and spinal fusion. These uses suggest it would be a possible treatment for patients with...

Table showing types of spine fracture, the columns involved and the mechanisms

fall from a height, landing on one's feet, is a typical cause of this fracture;
- burst frx involve only compressive failure of the vertebral body both anteriorly & posteriorly, w/ failure of both anterior &...

Vertebral Body Fractures Without Radiologic Collapse
Osteoporotic vertebral fractures with no sign of vertebral collapse on initial radiographs do indeed exist. They are analogous to occult stress fractures well known in other skeletal sites. They must not be misdiagnosed as malignant lesions.
Thao Pham, MD; Johanna Azulay-Parrado, MD; Pierre Champsaur, MD, PhD;...

Links to additional resources on this subject from the Rural Nurse Organization Clinical Library University of Alabama

The diffuse paraspinal ossification and inflammatory osteitis of advanced Ankylosing spondylitis creates a fused, brittle spine that is susceptible to fracture. The aim of this study is to present the surgical experience of spinal fractures occurring in patients suffering from ankylosing spondylitis and to highlight the difficulties that exist as...