It's natural to want to get back to your regular activities as soon as possible after surgery for a spinal compression fracture. But a lot depends on the type of operation you get. Two common ...

You've got a few key treatment goals when you have a compression fracture of the spine. You want to ease the pain, heal the fracture, and treat the osteoporosis that weakened your bones and caused ...

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 ...

Osteoporosis is a condition that weakens the bones, making them brittle and susceptible to fractures. Compression fractures .

A multicenter study finds that an AI tool can significantly improve the detection of vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) ...