Mayo clinic radiologist Dr. David Kallme's recent study showed that a very common and widely used procedure for Osteoporosis is no better than a placebo. This procedure uses medical cement to fix cracks in spinal bones (vertebralplasty). Pain and disability were the same after six months. Thousands of patients are treated with this procedure each year.
These findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is estimated that 750,000 Americans suffer painful compression fractures of the spine each year.
Other common safer treatments are bed rest, pain killers, and back braces.
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