Pain and debility associated with spinal compression fractures

Root, J.

Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association 96(3): 147-149

2003


ISSN/ISBN: 0030-1876
PMID: 12688229
Document Number: 556983
Approximately twenty percent of women will suffer a compression fracture sometime in their later years. Almost always the result of postmenopausal osteoporosis, they create dramatic and lasting consequences that lead to pain, reduced physiologic function and increased frailty. Recognition and treatment of compression fractures is an important step in maintaining an acceptable level of comfort and an optimal functional ability.

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