When osteoporosis has made your bones weak, the chances are higher that they’ll crack or break, even the bones of your spine. These spine fractures, also called vertebral compression fractures ...

Women with postmenopausal osteoporosis who received the monoclonal antibody romosozumab were less likely to sustain a vertebral fracture during 12 months of treatment compared with women who ...

A compression fracture of the back occurs when the bones of your spine (vertebrae) collapse. This can lead to poor posture, pain, loss of height, and a variety of other symptoms.

My wife was recently diagnosed with spinal osteoporosis, and her doctor suggested a yearly shot of zoledronic acid. Her insurance already approved it. She is checking the side effects, which ...

In women with clinical vertebral fracture vs. no clinical vertebral fracture, measurements of BMD showed more severe osteoporosis; however, other baseline characteristics were comparable among all ...

However, within 2 years of the incident fracture, 38% of patients developed another osteoporosis fracture — most frequently a vertebral fracture (74%) and less often a hip or femur fracture (14%).

As few as one infusion per decade lowered risk. The relative risk of fragility fracture, any fracture, and major osteoporotic fracture was 0.72 (95% CI 0.55-0.93), 0.70 (95% CI 0.56-0.88), and 0. ...

You can break a vertebra in your 60s or your 70s or beyond. And a vertebral fracture, yes, many of them kind of don't get diagnosed, but often, they are painful, not all of them, when they occur.

If your pain from spinal compression fracture is not improving within a few days to a week or two, I would recommend considering talking to your primary care physician about a neurosurgical referral.