Back pain in the elderly What’s going on?

  The granny next door is in her 70s and has been suffering from low back pain for two weeks. She came to see me after several visits to the hospital with no results. I sent her to the hospital for an MRI and found that it was an osteoporotic fracture of the first lumbar vertebra, so we performed a simple minimally invasive surgery on her by injecting bone cement into the fractured vertebra with a needle puncture.  With the aging of the population, osteoporotic fractures are becoming more and more common and we treat hundreds of such patients every year with excellent results.  The following are the common clinical manifestations of osteoporotic fractures: 1. old age with osteoporosis, 2. sometimes a history of minor trauma, 3. low back pain that disappears when lying in bed and increases when twisting the back, 4. special difficulty in getting up, 5. long duration of pain.  Elderly friends, if you have the above performance should be alert to lumbar fracture, timely treatment, otherwise there will be sequelae.