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The injection is safe when performed by physicians experienced with the technique//, and pain reduction is both swift and sustained, according to the one-year, multi-center cohort study.

Among the 25 patients enrolled in the uncontrolled study, the mean pain score on a 10-point visual analog scale was 7.3 at baseline, 2.7 immediately post-procedure, 1.4 at two weeks, 0.5 at 24 weeks, and 0.3 at 52 weeks, according to Michael Frey, MD, a NASS member and physiatrist at Advanced Pain Management and Spine Specialists in Fort Myers, FL.

There are currently no treatments for sacral insufficiency fractures. Recovery is typically slow, and pain may linger for up to a year. In some cases, symptoms and disability last longer.

To calm the pain, physicians often prescribe bed rest, painkillers, corsets, or other measures. However, these can put patients at increased risk of thromboembolism, skin breakdown, pressure ulcers, constipation, depression, progressive osteoporosis, and reduced muscle strength and cardiac function.

“These patients are miserable,” said Frey, who has performed sacroplasty on nearly 50 patients.

To explore better alternatives, Frey and others have adapted techniques developed for vertebroplasty in the lumbar spine. In vertebroplasty, physicians use fluoroscopic guidance to inject polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) into osteoporotic compression fractures. After injection the acrylic bone cement hardens. The technique was designed to stabilize the fracture, reduce pain, and improve function.

Frey and colleagues reported on consecutive patients with osteoporosis who had incapacitating low back or gluteal pain and a sacral insufficiency fracture documented on MR imaging or CT scan, and who failed or could not tolerate conservative care. The authors excluded patients with fractures caused by malignancies.

About one in seven patients experienced complete relief of pain within 30 minute
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