- What to Do for a Lumbar Fracture?
Although deaths in traffic accidents have decreased due to advanced health services and vehicle-traffic safety measures, spinal fractures have increased, especially as a result of the increasing speed of transportation vehicles. As a result of the increase in average human life expectancy, elderly patients may be among the victims of these accidents. Osteoporosis, or osteoporosis as it is medically known, which occurs in older ages, especially in women, is also a cause of lumbar fracture.
If these fractures occur due to osteoporosis in elderly people and due to very simple falls; It is possible to repair it with fully closed surgeries, that is, by inflating a balloon inside the bone and correcting it, and then filling the bone with bone cement, in medical terms, "kyphoplasty"or"vertebroplasty".
However, the point that should not be forgotten is that this type of surgery should be performed within the first few months after the event that caused the fracture. We used the old methods in plaster!
Damage to the spinal cord and nerves in these bone fractures can aggravate the patient's condition. Therefore, be sure to ensure that there is an experienced neurosurgery instructor alongside the orthopedists in the team treating these fractures. Because sometimes patients with severe and comminuted spinal fractures need to be brought to their feet as soon as possible; Inevitably, "fusion surgery", "instrumentation surgery" as it is called among doctors, and "platinum surgery" as it is called among the public, must be performed. Patients who have fractures in their hip and coccyx bones, as well as their waist bones, must be operated on by experienced teams.
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