Lifestyle factors such as regular exercise, eating a healthy, balanced diet (including getting plenty of calcium), and ...

A vertebral compression fracture (VCF) is a break in an individual bone, or vertebra, of the spine that causes the vertebra to collapse. A lumbar VCF affects the lower spine. When a VCF occurs, the ...

A stress fracture is one of the most common injuries that an athlete can experience. Stress fractures most often occur in weight-bearing bones such as the femur, tibia and bones of the foot. A. A ...

In 18 cases, a low energy injury of the spine occurred and in only 2 cases the cause was a high-energy injury (table 2). The fractures occurred in the cervical spine were compression injuries. C6 and ...