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Therapy of a vertebral fracture

Vertebral fracture therapy

From the results of the Diagnosis of vertebral fracture the therapy is derived from.

The stable one Vertebral fracture is treated conservatively in most cases. This includes:

needs-based pain therapy (Analgesic therapy)
Physiotherapy (neck gymnastics)
Balneotherapy
Electrotherapy and
possibly the installation of a Support corsets.

If there are significant symptoms of pain and a great loss of height of the vertebral body with the probable development of chronic segment instability, a straightening operation can be performed.
This form of therapy for the vertebral body can be carried out surgically openly or, more recently, in certain cases, also minimally invasive. (Kyphoplasty).
In kyphoplasty, a small surgical procedure, the Vertebral bodies be straightened up again by a balloon and stabilized from the inside by filling the vertebral body with cement.
The kyphoplasty procedure is usually only performed at specialized centers for spinal surgery.
Further information on this topic is available at: Kyphoplasty

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In very general terms, the goals of surgical treatment of the vertebral fracture are repositioning and stabilization of the affected spinal column.

Unstable fractures are usually treated with open surgery. A corset usually does not have a sufficiently stabilizing effect.

The surgical methods of choice are fracture reduction and vertebral body stabilization by one of backwards (dorsal) inserted fixator internal (Bone tensioner; see adjacent figure) in the case of thoracic and lumbar spine injuries or the anterior vertebral body stabilization through a stiffening plating (Plate fixation with iliac crest chip interposition) for cervical vertebral body fractures (with the exception of the Atlas and Axis).
These measures relieve the load on the fractured vertebral body and the patient can be mobilized early after the operation.

Figure vertebral fracture

Vertebral fracture (vertebral fracture)

Transverse process -
Transverse process
Spinous process -
Spinous process
Upper articular process -
Superior articular process
Lower articular process -
Inferior articular process
Spinal nerve -
Spinal nerve
Spinal cord -
Medula spinalis
Gelatinous core - Nucleus pulposus
Vertebral arch - Arcus vertebrae
Fiber ring - Annulus fibrosus
Vertebral bodies - Corpus vertebrae
First thoracic vertebra -
Vertebra thoracica I
Twelfth thoracic vertebra -
Vertebra thoracica XII
First lumbar vertebra -
Vertebra lumbalis I
Fifth lumbar vertebra -
Vertebra lumbalis V
a - cervical spine (cervical spine)
b - thoracic spine (BWS)
c - lumbar spine (lumbar spine)
A - vertebral fracture (spinous process,
Vertebral bodies) from above
B - vertebral fracture (spinous process,
Vertebral body) from the right
C - Most common area of the
Vertebral fracture