Is minimally invasive therapy good for spinal compression low back pain

  Mr. Shangguan, who is over 70 years old, is retired at home. When he was young, he worked early and late, forgetting to eat and sleep, and can be described as a silent dedication to the socialist modernization of the cattle. Now retired, the children and grandchildren are also filial, rare time and neighborhood friends or visit the flower and bird market to cultivate temperament, or a small teahouse recreation mood, or play mahjong contact, is also considered to enjoy themselves.  However, the good times do not last long. Mr. Shangguan often feel the back back pain discomfort when you go out, if the pain is aggravated after walking, and feel the chest tightness, shortness of breath, the force is not from the heart, after rest to ease. Mr. also had to rest at home and did not dare to go out, intermittently took some pills to relieve the pain, the pain is sometimes light and sometimes heavy, so unknowingly continued for 2 years …… this period, not to mention the old friends criticism “have about not to come” helpless, not to mention the less Many recreational activities after the loneliness, single is the back pain will make Mr. suffering, can not walk straight back, due to hunched over body plus back pain often dare not breathe hard, a little action will be panting …… Mr. Shangguan think back when not retired is how strong the mountain, but now it is … …is it really Liampo old?  Mr. Shangguan, who has always defied old age, came to the hospital with the help of his children. After an MRI examination, the cause was found to be a compression fracture of the thoracic vertebrae in the back, the doctor said that the elderly due to osteoporosis, part of the vertebrae are too heavy to be compressed. The key to the treatment of this problem is to reset the flattened vertebrae, and there are two methods: one is open surgery to reset, and the other is the more advanced minimally invasive balloon expansion vertebroplasty at home and abroad. Considering the high risk of open surgery and the fact that he was too old to bear the huge blow of open surgery trauma, he decided to undergo the minimally invasive balloon expansion reset treatment. After several inquiries, he finally found a hospital where this new technique was performed.  The minimally invasive procedure is performed under fluoroscopy, in which a puncture needle is inserted into the compressed vertebral bone, a balloon is placed, the compressed vertebral body is expanded, and medical bone cement is injected to reinforce it after satisfactory repositioning. The operation took less than an hour, and the next day, Mr. Shangguan felt that the pain in his lower back disappeared, and he walked on the ground with his head held high, regaining his youthful glow.  When he was discharged the next day, Mr. Shangguan exclaimed, “If I had known about this minimally invasive and miraculous treatment 2 years ago, I would have suffered 2 years less!”