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SEASON 12 • EPISODE 3

Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

"Saving the Spine: New Treatments for Vertebral Compression Fractures"

Date Aired: Apr 29, 2009

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While conditions like cancer and heart disease can be life-threatening there are other diseases that are "quality-of-life threatening" like osteoporosis. Especially osteoporosis where there have already been fractures of the spine. But there are effective treatments for osteoporosis and new surgical techniques to repair the spine with far less pain and suffering than traditional surgeries. In this program we explore the treatments available for people who have had a vertebral compression fracture and see how innovative surgical procedures are allowing them to live well with osteoporosis.
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