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Pain and debility associated with spinal compression fractures
1Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA.
The Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association
|April 12, 2003
Abstract:
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.