The cervical spine (neck) houses nerves that make up the spinal cord. When the spinal column experiences enough traumatic force, its bony elements can break (known as a fracture). Vertebrae that have ...

You can break a vertebra in your 60s or your 70s or beyond. And a vertebral fracture, yes, many of them kind of don't get diagnosed, but often, they are painful, not all of them, when they occur.

What Is a Compression Fracture of the Spine? The vertebrae (or "vertebral bodies") are the bones that form the spinal column. A compression fracture of the spine describes a collapse of one or more of ...

The dataset used to developed the algorithm is from the the RSNA 2022's Kaggle ... which can be further used to find the extent of fracture present in each vertebrae. Trained model combining Convnext ...

BMD (g/cm 2) of the lumbar spine, femoral neck and total hip was assessed ... In relation to the identification of patients at risk of fracture, we also analysed the value of the FRAX algorithm ...

For early postmenopausal women, zoledronate administered at baseline and 5 years is effective for preventing morphometric vertebral fracture.

FRAX is a fracture risk prediction algorithm designed to estimate the 10-year probability of major osteoporotic fractures ...

For early postmenopausal women, zoledronate administered at baseline and five years is effective for preventing morphometric ...

The researchers found that 6.3, 6.6, and 11.1% of the zoledronate-zoledronate, zoledronate-placebo, and placebo-placebo groups, respectively, had a new morphometric fracture at follow-up.