For the 700,000 people who suffer broken vertebrae each year in ... The procedure “is an internal brace on the inside of the vertebrae,” said Dr. Ehud Mendel, director of the spine program ...

32 Back braces (i.e., spinal orthoses) have been used to treat patients with acute vertebral fractures ... 86 of every 100,000 fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries underwent vertebroplasty.

You've got a few key treatment goals when you have a compression fracture of the spine. You want to ease ... physical therapy, or a back brace. You can often get relief with an over-the-counter ...

Federal authorities say they’ve broken up a $1.2 billion Medicare scam that peddled unneeded ... doctors accused of writing bogus prescriptions for unneeded back, shoulder, wrist and knee braces.

Injections of bone cement into fractured vertebrae fail to relieve pain any ... the experts said, and maybe try back braces and physical therapy. Patients also should take osteoporosis drugs ...