compression fracture in a sentence
Examples
- Power was later diagnosed with a vertebral compression fracture in his thoracic vertebrae and had surgery to correct the problem.
- In a pathological compression fracture of a spinal vertebra fractures will commonly appear to collapse the entire body of vertebra.
- Those areas are prime for hip fractures, or for spinal compression fractures, which can lead to the dreaded dowager's hump.
- What happens next, according to Asdie, is the so-called compression fracture-- a condition where a person's bones become smaller in size.
- "But given the nature of his osteoporosis, he runs the risk of further compression fractures with physical events, " he says.
- They're losing injured players, too, as an MRI on Friday revealed rookie quarterback Charlie Batch has a compression fracture in his back.
- Edwards has not played since suffering a compression fracture of three vertebrae in his upper back on Sept . 16 against Oregon.
- Based in Santa Rosa, California, the company develops and manufactures devices to treat compression fractures of the thoracic and lumbar vertebral spine.
- Eighty-year-old Santa Floridia of Quincy, Mass . suffered a compression fracture in early October when she fell while climbing into a van.
- "When the compression fractures happen to the spine, it's the front part of the bone that shrinks much quicker than the back part.