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Posterior distraction and instrumentation cannot always reduce displaced and rotated posterosuperior fracture fragments in thoracolumbar burst fracture. Wang XB, Lu GH, Li J, Wang B, Lu C, Phan K. Ligamentotaxis with an internal spinal fixator for thoracolumbar fractures. Kuner EH, Kuner A, Schlickewei W, Mullaji AB. The phenomenon and efficiency of ligamentotaxis after dorsal stabilization of thoracolumbar burst fractures. Mueller LA, Mueller LP, Schmidt R, Forst R, Rudig L. Outcome of thoracolumbar burst fractures treated with indirect reduction and fixation without fusion.
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Yang H, Shi JH, Ebraheim M, Liu X, Konrad J, Husain I, et al. Efficiency of ligamentotaxis using PLL for thoracic and lumbar burst fractures in the load-sharing classification. Jeong WJ, Kim JW, Seo DW, Lee HJ, Kim JY, Yoon JP, et al. The value of closed reduction of fractures of the lower thoracic and lumbar spine and computerized tomography follow-up. I learned this from my mom who is a retired nurse.Seykora P, Beck E, Daniaux H, Pallua A, Kathrein A, Lang T. Because if they really do have such a fracture and nerves and the spinal cord are exposed, an incorrect movement can cause them to become paralyzed! It's so important to leave it to medical professionals to care for someone who has a burst fracture and not move them in any way. Like the article said, that's really dangerous. Burst fractures are classified either stable or unstable. The prognosis for your burst fracture highly depends on the severity of your L1 and T12 fracture.
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L1 and T12 Stable/Unstable Burst Fracture Thoracic Spine Recovery. They clearly don't realize that the person could be suffering from a compression burst fracture. A burst fracture is a more serious condition compared to compression and wedge fractures. A couple of times, I actually saw people who were waiting for the ambulance to arrive trying to pull people out of cars or change their positions haphazardly. I see news channels reporting car accidents all the time. If people know about this, I'm sure they would be more careful when they encounter a car accident victim. I like how the article talked about the importance of vertebra and what can happen when the vertebra is crushed such as in a burst fracture. This is an excellent article with excellent information. Rarely, I also have some numbness in one of my legs but usually it passes very soon. It's been almost a year and the only symptoms I have from the fracture is occasional pain in my spine. I was back home in a few days and thankfully I didn't have any complications because of the fracture. I was operated on and the crush vertebrae was removed and fused with another vertebrae. BF is defined as retropulsion of bony fragments from. The rate of burst fracture is on the rise in young patients and leads to major socio-economic problems for healthcare systems. One of my spinal vertebrae was completely crushed. Almost 10 to 20 spinal fracture occurs through the incidence of burst fracture (BF) ,where in 60 of the cases, BF can cause the neurological injury 1, 2. I was hospitalized with several fractures, including a burst fracture in my spine. The car behind me slammed into me while I was at a red light. But considering that paralysis and chronic pain is at the more serious end of the spectrum, you and I have been very lucky for sure. I guess burst fractures can have varying degrees of seriousness depending on which vertebrae was damaged and how it happened. I do walk around, but it's painful and I usually use a walker for support. I also have loss of feeling where the fracture was. It's been several months since the fracture and my bowel issues continue. The fracture also damaged the nerves that eventually end up in the bowels and I started having issues with my bowels as well. I was hospitalized again soon after the surgery because of damaged blood vessels and blood accumulation in my spine. Unfortunately, my fracture brought on more complications. My L1 (lumbar 1) vertebrae was fractured, I also had a fusion procedure done like you. I had the same fracture, from a bad fall.