Acute and chronic pain in vertebral fractures as systemic osteoporosis complication. Literature review

Abstract

A literature review is devoted to acute and chronic pain mechanisms in vertebral fractures complicating osteoporosis. The data of pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods of pain relief for vertebral bodies fractures, which precede the pathogenetic therapy of osteoporosis or could be combined with it.

Keywords

• osteoporosis
• vertebral fractures
• acute pain
• chronic pain
• orthoses