Surgical Treatment for Spinal Compression Fractures. When chronic pain from a spinal compression fracture persists despite rest, activity modification, back bracing, and pain medication, surgery ...

X-rays may sometimes miss small fractures of bone in the spine due to overlapping or blurring of shadows on the picture, or may sometimes incorrectly display a bone defect, lesion or fracture where ...

More than 700,000 people suffer spinal fractures due to osteoporosis each year – double the number of people who experience hip fractures, according to the International Osteoporosis Foundation.

The study is the first to identify an association between body composition of the arms and poor bone quality. In addition to ...

When elderly patients have suffered fractures, their hip and lumbar spine bone density is examined with the dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) method, to find out if they need treatment for ...

The report notes that about 40% of older women with spinal fractures visible on X-ray undergo testing for osteoporosis. The figure is even lower in men — less than 20%.

Spinal imaging test can help identify and predict the likelihood of fractures in the vertebrae of the spine and calcification in a blood vessel in older men.

The term vertebral-fracture assessment (VFA) denotes densitometric spine imaging from T4 to L4 for the purpose of identifying prevalent vertebral fractures. 24 As compared with spinal radiographs ...

When elderly patients have suffered fractures, their hip and lumbar spine bone density is examined with the dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) method, to find out if they need treatment for ...

Nearly 700,000 men and women suffer from a spinal compression fracture each year. These fractures, which for the most part are stable fractures occurring on the front or anterior of the spine, are ...

It is always exciting to be able to provide information on new procedures and technology. I received a letter last week from Chris Thorpe of Lake Medical Imaging and Breast Center of Leesburg. She … ...