Comments on: Vertebroplasty Found to be Useless for Osteoporotic Fracture and Disk Pain

By: Cement Lover

Cement Lover — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:44:31 +0000

Looks like this post is famous and irresponsible.

http://www.spine.org/Documents/NASSComment_on_Vertebroplasty.pdf

By: Doug Bremner

Doug Bremner — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:33:30 +0000

It does make the bone stronger but can make adjacent spinal vertebrae more unstable.

By: Therapy Patient

Therapy Patient — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:33:19 +0000

I am not educated on these things, but wouldn’t an objective of such a procedure be to make the bone stronger, so that a better assessment might be to see what happens to the spine function over time. I wonder why pain was the criteria? To me the worse part of osteoporosis is the collapsing vertebrae that lead to permanent hunching over which happened to both my mom and both grandmothers. If THAT could be prevented it would be successful regardless of pain outcome.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:47:27 +0000

Thanks for posting on this topic, Doug.

I suffered a vertebral compression fracture about 5 years ago, and this treatment was offered to me.

I refused, because from the research I did, there was no guarantee I would experience relief with such a procedure.

In fact, any back surgery only provides relief in about half of all patients, I believe.