The weather is cold and the road is slippery, you must pay attention to safety when you go out, especially the elderly, and you, especially the elderly women!
Because of osteoporosis in older people, minor trauma often causes compression fractures of the vertebral spine. In addition, the elderly have poor self-healing ability after fractures, and have long-term pain and discomfort in the lower back. Pain worsens, especially when you bend over and roll over to change position. Some patients also have pain and numbness radiating to the abdomen or flanks. It often lasts for a long time and does not heal.
Minimally invasive vertebral compression fractures in older adults can be minimally invasive if they are symptomatic and the conservative response is not ideal**.
Bone cement, commonly known as percutaneous vertebroplasty, is a minimally invasive surgery in which bone cement is injected into the fractured lumbar vertebrae through a puncture instrument to fix the broken end of the fracture and relieve pain at the same time.
This surgery is less invasive, passing a 0A small incision of 3 cm can be done. The effect of surgery is good, the pain in the lower back generally disappears immediately after the operation, and you can wear your waist circumference to get out of bed the next day after surgery to avoid complications such as deep vein thrombosis caused by long-term bed rest. Elderly people with lumbar vertebra fractures who do not have this surgery usually require absolute bed rest for two months. However, long-term bed rest is easy to cause complications such as bedsores, lung infections, and deep vein thrombosis. These complications are fatal to the elderly, and it is necessary to turn over and pat the back and perform lower limb joint function exercises during absolute bed rest to prevent the above complications.
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