Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures: are we doing enough?
Vertebral fractures are one of the most common osteoporotic fractures, yet they are the one that we miss most often.
Case study
A 58-year-old woman presents with mid/lower back pain. She was lifting shopping bags out of her car boot and felt a twinge in her back. The pain progressively got worse over the next few days. It felt like a bad ‘back spasm’, similar to one she’d had before, and the pain wrapped around into her ribs. She has seen her GP, had one chiro and four physio sessions. Her pain was improving but she felt progress was too slow and her exercises were not helping. She had a lot…
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