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Cancer Patients Find Relief from Excruciating Pain with Novel Technique

...able of relieving pain when injected into the para vertebral space. This works by blocking the nerves that transmit the pain sensation. Many cancer patients have found relief after being treated with this form of pain relief treatment. This will certainly improve the life of many cancer patients suffering ad...

Kyphoplasty Yields Good Long-Term Improvement for Spinal Fractures

...155 patients with painful spinal fractures, called vertebral compression fractures (VCFs). Most of the fractures were related to weakening of the bone caused by osteoporosis. The patients underwent balloon kyphoplasty at 19 U.S. hospitals. In the kyphoplasty procedure, a balloon is used to line up the fragme...

Raloxifene Reduces The Risk Of Breast Cancer

...e, which tested the ability of the drug to prevent vertebral fractures in 7,705 postmenopausal women diagnosed with osteoporosis. The secondary endpoint of this multi-centre, double-blind trial, known as MORE (Multiple Outcomes of Raloxifene Evaluation) was the drug's effect on breast cancer development; res...

Sacroplasty Safe and Effective to Reduce Low Back Pain

...recommends physicians have extensive experience in vertebral augmentation. Potentially, cement can leak outside the sacrum and compromise the sacral nerve root, the sacral spinal canal, or sacroiliac joint. Several years ago, the FDA issued a surprisingly sharp warning about the risks associated with vertebr...

Actonel Treats Hip Fractures In A Better Way Than Alendronate

...otection, seen as early as six months for clinical vertebral fracture and nonvertebral fractures. No other bisphosphonate treatments for osteoporosis have been shown in clinical trials to reduce clinical fractures this early for patients. However, data are limited that compare therapies directly in the same st...

Chiropractic Care May Help Children With Learning Disorders

...of life cause misalignments in the spine -- called vertebral subluxations by chiropractors -- the brain is not adequately stimulated. This can cause problems throughout the body.' He added that chiropractic adjustments, even when no back problems are evident, can improve the function of the spine and strongl...

Chiropractic Care Helps Children With Learning Disorders and Dyslexia

... of life cause misalignments in the spine - called vertebral subluxations by chiropractors - the brain is not a...sive form of chiropractic as a means of correcting vertebral subluxations that cause nerve interference. Source-Newswise SRI...

Older Men Have Similar Refracture Risk as Women

...isk, with highest risks following hip and clinical vertebral fractures in younger men. In further analyses, femoral neck bone mineral density, age, and smoking were predictors of subsequent fracture in women and femoral neck bone mineral density, physical activity, and calcium intakes were predictors in men. ...

Does Anti-TNF Therapy Control Ankylosis ?

...ontrolling the painful symptoms of SpA and slowing vertebral joint destruction. But does anti-TNF therapy do anything to reduce the incidence or severity of ankylosis? To answer this critical question, a quartet of researchers led by Dr. Frank P. Luyten, Division of Rheumatology, University Hospitals, Leuve...

Research Explores Chiropractic's Effect on Diabetes

...ward correcting misalignments in the spine, called vertebral subluxations, which affect the relationship betwee...l recent research projects exploring the impact of vertebral subluxations on human health and well-being and the potential benefits of chiropractic. In the past,...

Delhi to Host South Asian Neurologists' Congress

... the treatment of brain tumors, hemorrhage, crania vertebral anomalies and peripheral nerve surgeries. Besides speaking on the recent advances in interventional neuro radiology and endovascular neuro surgery, the experts will also deliberate on ethics and training in the medical practices of the field. Vic...

More Americans Suffer from Vertebral Compression Fractures

...s in the spine. This occurs when the bony block or vertebral body in the spine collapses, which can lead to sev...tumors. “In the past, people with severe pain from vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) were treated with bed rest, medications, bracing, or invasive spinal su...

Chinese Doctors Perform World’s First Disc Transplant

...artilage that cushions the individual movements of vertebral bones. When the discs wear away or are damaged by disease, the bones press on nerves, which can cause pain and restrict movement. Degenerative disc disease can produce serious problems with balance and mobility as well as neurological problems su...

Daily Steroids Helpful for Boys Down With Muscular Dystrophy

...eated with daily steroids had an increased risk of vertebral and leg fractures. Vertebral fractures occurred in 32 percent of the boys treated with steroids, whereas there were no fractures reported in the untreated group. Leg fractures were 2.6 times more common in the steroid-treated group. King said this ma...

Childhood Strokes Linked to Whiplash, Other Traumatic Injury

...ury to arteries in the neck or spine. Carotid or vertebral artery injury can lead to small tears, which generate blood clots that travel to the brain and cause a fourth of all strokes in children, Jordan says. A common cause of such stroke-inducing neck trauma is whiplash sustained during a car accident. Ot...

Once-a-year Drug Reduces Fractures from Osteoporosis

...of 5 mg of zoledronic acid to decrease the risk of vertebral and hip fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. The study also closely examined and put to rest several questions of other side effects of zoledronic acid, such as the renal damage and bone deterioration that has been seen at much larg...

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