A vertebral compression fracture (VCF) is a break in an individual bone, or vertebra, of the spine that causes the vertebra to collapse. A lumbar VCF affects the lower spine. When a VCF occurs, the ...

In 18 cases, a low energy injury of the spine occurred and in only 2 cases the cause was a high-energy injury (table 2). The fractures occurred in the cervical spine were compression injuries. C6 and ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended that routine bone scans include a vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) to check for undiagnosed osteoporotic spinal ...

Using data from 638,999 patients, a new study by a research team at the Warren Alpert Medical School found that the incidence of cervical and thoracic spinal fractures has increased since 2003. The ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Michael Pittman Jr. had been playing through a back injury all season. But he didn’t say what exactly it was, until Monday. He had a “little back fracture” that had been ...

Junior world champion Harry Hudson is out of action with a fracture in his spine as a result of a nasty training crash in which he was hit by a motorbike rider. The 18-year-old Briton, who won the ...

Adversity hit Libertyville freshman Danica Meller’s high school soccer career before it even started. Late last summer, Meller suffered a serious lower-back injury, which sidelined her for 10 weeks. A ...