Expert Panel Says Two Back Pain Procedures May Be Useless
— January 29, 2019THURSDAY, Jan. 24, 2019 — Injecting cement into broken vertebrae to stabilize an osteoporosis-related spinal fracture does little to reduce pain and disability, a new report says. Two surgeries are used for these types of fractures: vertebroplasty, in which medical grade cement is injected into broken vertebrae to fuse the fragments together; and balloon kyphoplasty, […]
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