Dear Doctors, For those suffering from painful spinal fracture and fed up with medicines and bed rest, percutaneous vertebroplasty offers a promising remedy, said, doctors. It's available in a large number of hospitals, can be performed quickly, and can relieve sufferers of their pain, said a Neurologist of Neurology department of a famous hospital. "The problem that 'percutaneous vertebroplasty' cures is called 'vertebral compression fracture' which means a collapse of a vertebra or one of the small bones that form the spine," he explains. It may be due to trauma (injury) or due to a weakening of the vertebra.
This weakening is particularly seen in patients with osteoporosis (decreased bone strength) or destruction of an area of bone due to a disease process. Acute fractures will cause severe back pain. Compression fractures which develop gradually, such as in osteoporosis, may…
