An AI-assisted osteoporosis diagnostic system may estimate the bone mineral density of the lumbar spine and femur, and ...

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 ...

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%).

You can have osteoporosis and not even know it. In fact, about two-thirds of spinal compression fractures are never diagnosed because many people think the back pain is just a part of aging and ...

Some people however, may need further treatment, such as surgery. Pain from spinal compression fracture, which is allowed to heal naturally, can last as long as two to three months.

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 ...

Overview 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.

In those women receiving romosozumab, all clinical vertebral fractures occurred in the first two months of treatment; overall, the risk of a vertebral fracture was more than five times greater in ...

"It is estimated that 120,000 vertebral fractures occur in the UK each year and that more than 20 per cent of people over the age of 50 have evidence of damage to vertebrae.