A study in France has found that pamidronate (a bone antiresorptive agent) provides rapid and sustained pain relief in patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (VCFs), although ...

Medically reviewed by Isabel Casimiro, MD, PhD Fact checked by Jillian Dara The lumbar spine includes the five vertebrae in ...

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD The thoracic spine is part of your spinal column and is composed of 12 bones that are ...

Lumbar spine fractures can be detected by routine trauma ... Of that 8.3% (15) that were missed by CT, 11 represented compression deformities of indeterminate age, three were possible transverse ...