If you have a family history or you’re getting older and worried about osteoporosis, it’s important to know the early “silent ...

Spinal compression fractures are another source of back pain for which do not we do not see a lot of coverage. However, in our field, I find that these are one of the most common causes of back ...

In addition to 'Spinal compression fracture', there may be other similar symptoms or signs that better match your side effect. These have also been listed below for your convenience.

Most often, compression fractures heal over a few weeks, but I am concerned that you are continuing to have the same amount of pain and numbness. Although a back brace can be helpful, I am not ...

Among older people, vertebral compression fractures are very common, and those with such fractures are at high risk of incurring new ones. Findings in a new thesis from the University of ...

Vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) occur easily in people with osteoporosis, and affect older women in particular. The thesis confirms previous research showing that 25% of older women between ...

Mayor Menino's Compression Fracture Still a Problem Mayor Menino is on the mend, but how did he hurt himself lying in bed? By Melissa Malamut · 11/14/2012, 12:42 p.m.

A new study describes symptoms of acute myelopathy in surfers. Back in the late 1990s, Cherylee Chang, MD, medical director, Neuroscience Institute/Neurocritical Care, director, Stroke Center, The ...

The exclusion criteria were age ≥ 65 y; specific back disease, such as fracture, neoplasia, infectious, or rheumatic spine disease; spondylolisthesis (≥4 mm); spinal stenosis; disc extrusion ...