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Up Close - Women's Health - September 27, 2012
Injecting cement into spine meant to help osteoporosis sufferers
Physician says alternative to invasive back surgery eases pain

By Linn Parish
Of the Journal of Business

Interventional radiologist Dr. Travis Stratford says a new fluoroscopy unit at Valley Hospital has improved imaging used in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty.
Interventional radiologist Dr. Travis Stratford says a new fluoroscopy unit at Valley Hospital has improved imaging used in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty.
—Staff photo by Linn Parish
A minimally invasive procedure to repair vertebrae fractures common in osteoporosis sufferers has become slightly less invasive at Valley Hospital.

Called vertebroplasty, the procedure involves injecting a special bone cement into compression fractures in a vertebra to prevent the bone from collapsing. A similar procedure called kyphoplasty involves inserting a small, deflated balloon into the fractured bone, expanding the balloon to create a cavity, then filling the cavity with th...


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