While raloxifene can help to prevent fractures, another technique can help heal them. Until now there was not a lot medicine could do for the many men and women who experience spinal fractures. But at Emory University in Atlanta, Dr. Jacques Dion has helped develop a procedure called vertebroplasty. Vertebroplasty is done while the patient is awake and takes only an hour or two. Acrylic cement is injected directly into the damaged vertebrae to prevent further collapse.
Doctors recommend that after a fracture is fixed, medications be used to prevent further fractures.
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