Summary Many older adults are concerned about breaking a hip, but in actuality spinal fractures are much more common. In fact vertebral compression fractures or VCF as they're known affect 25 percent of all post menopausal women in the United States. Unfortunately, often people don't attribute the sharp, agonizing pain in their backs to a fracture that can be healed, rather they blame arthritis or some other chronic condition they just have to live with. This leads to a poor quality of life because while the pain itself can be debilitating, fractures of the vertebra can also lead to deformities of the spine and difficulty with the most basic tasks of daily life. But there are treatments that can alleviate the pain almost instantly in some cases. In this program, experts will explain what puts people at risk for VCF and we will go into the surgical suite to watch as doctors perform procedures to heal the fractures.

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