Treatment of vertebral compression fractures

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Spinal fracture is a common problem among young men. When an indirect external force acts on the body or accidentally falls from a height, it can cause spinal fractures. Some external pressure, such as car accidents and house collapses, can also lead to spinal fractures. People with severe spinal fractures may lead to paraplegia or even endanger their lives. And if the treatment is not appropriate, in time is a simple vertebral compression fracture can also leave serious low back pain sequelae. The following describes the treatment of vertebral compression fractures.

Treatment of vertebral compression fractures

First: the first step in the treatment of vertebral compression fractures is rescue, for example, because of earthquake, house collapse and other factors leading to vertebral compression fractures, treatment often starts from the first moment of rescue. In the process of rescue, we need to pay special attention to transporting the injured. The correct method is to use hard plane board or stone board as the transport tool, but not soft transport tool, so as to avoid the broken bone entering the spinal canal and causing spinal cord injury.

Second, you can recover. Using reduction treatment, let the patient lie flat on the hard board, slowly pad a thicker pillow at the fracture site, so that the spine can stretch to see, maintain this state, three days later can do back extension action, basically three months or so can recover.

Third: in fact, the most important treatment for vertebral compression fractures is reduction treatment. This kind of fracture belongs to a relatively mild type of spinal fracture, generally does not need special treatment. If the fracture site is not easy to be observed by the orthopedic doctor, an x-ray picture can be made before treatment, and then the reduction treatment can be carried out according to the picture.

matters needing attention

In terms of diet, patients with vertebral compression fractures should not do too much bone supplement in the first period of time, and the diet should be simple and light, because patients should not get out of bed at the beginning of reduction treatment, and it is better to have someone to feed, and the liquid food that does not need chewing is the best, which can avoid the pain caused by chewing food.