Osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture pain (back pain): our experience with balloon kyphoplasty.

Abstract

Back pain due to vertebral compression fractures is a quite frequent diagnosis for the pain medicine specialist; KP is a new technique showing an association of a low incidence of complications with a success rate, both on pain control and on vertebral height restoring. In our study, KP proved to be a safe technique with a high success rate, both for pain relief and for vertebral height restoring, with immediate results and important consequences on the patient's quality of life, physical and mental status, with a low incidence of complications due also to the choice of performing this procedure in locoregional anesthesia.