Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 2007 study claimed that an estimated 1.7 million vertebral compression fractures occur every year in Europe ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In their systematic review and meta-analysis, researchers from China deemed that both kyphoplasty and ...

September 20, 2006 –- Assessing the safety and efficacy of the procedures, researchers have found that vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty represent treatments of choice in selected patients with severe ...

Two distinct procedures for the treatment of vertical compression fractures do not markedly differ in their beneficial effects, a comparative, randomized clinical trial by investigators from ...

An expensive and common procedure treating back pain from osteoporosis turns out to be ineffective, no better than a fake surgery, two major studies have found. Called vertebroplasty, the procedure ...

A fast-growing medical procedure that injects medical cement into the spine to treat fractures apparently works no better than a placebo. That’s the conclusion of a New England Journal of Medicine ...

TA Criterion 1: The technology must have final approval from the appropriate government regulatory bodies. Vertebroplasty is a procedure and as such does not require Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

If osteoporosis has caused a spinal compression fracture, the treatment should address the pain, the fracture, and the underlying osteoporosis to prevent future fractures. All components of treatment ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DFine, Inc., developer of minimally invasive solutions for treating vertebral pathologies, announced today that Robert Pflugmacher, M.D., of University Hospital in ...

Kyphoplasty Superior to Vertebroplasty for Vertebral Fx For people with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures, kyphoplasty (KP) is superior to vertebroplasty (VP) for correcting kyphosis, ...