You are standing at the bedside of a neurologically intact patient with a thoracolumbar burst fracture. Do you fix it? Brace ...

While surgeons know of many conservative, non-operative, safe and effective treatments for traumatic thoracolumbar spine fractures, they do not agree on which of them delivers the best outcomes. In an ...

Bozic, Kevin J., J H Keyak, H B Skinner, H U Bueff, and David Bradford. "Three-dimensional Finite Element Modeling of a Cervical Vertebra: An Investigation of Burst Fracture Mechanism." Journal of ...

New research could offer hope for victims of the most devastating spinal injuries - typically those caused in car crashes. Bone cements, similar to those used in joint replacement surgery, are already ...

In all samples, a fracture resulted in the target vertebral body by performing a single compression cycle. Yield strengths recorded during the fracture tests are shown in Table 1 and ranged from 1.9 ...

Spinal fractures can vary widely in severity. While some fractures are very serious injuries that require emergency treatment, other fractures can be the result of bones weakened by osteoporosis. Most ...

How do I Treat a Spinal Fracture? Spinal fractures can vary widely in severity. While some fractures are very serious injuries that require emergency treatment, other fractures can be the result of ...