This is quite an interesting story on the outpatient surgery.net website. In which the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is strongly recommending against this previously popular procedure for treatment of spinal compression fracture to relieve chronic back pain.
For those of us who didn’t know (and I was one of them) here is the wikipedia definition of vertebroplasty:
“Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty are medical spinal procedure where bone cement is injected through a small hole in the skin (percutaneously) into a fractured vertebra with the goal of relieving the pain of osteoporotic compression fractures.”
Although the evidence now suggests that the procedure has no real benefits, patients that have already undergone it should not be concerned as there are also no reported negative side-effects.
I’d be interested to hear if any of my readers have had this procedure and how they got on.
To read the story in full go here.
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