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  • J Pain Relief 2018, Vol 7(3): 323
  • DOI: 10.4172/2167-0846.1000323

Effectiveness of Balloon Kyphoplasty in Patients with Painful Vertebral Compression Fractures

Cornelis Wilhelmus Jacobus Van Tilburg1*, Johannes George Groeneweg2, Dirk Leendert Stronks2 and Frank Johannes Petrus Maria Huygen2
1Department of Pain Medicine and Anesthesiology, Pain and Neuromodulation Centre, , Excellent Klinieken, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
2Center for Pain Medicine, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, , Rotterdam, The Netherlands
*Corresponding Author : Cornelis Wilhelmus Jacobus Van Tilburg, Department of Pain Medicine and Anesthesiology, Pain and Neuromodulation Centre, Excellent Klinieken, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Tel: +31850410150, Email: kvtilburg@excellentklinieken.nl

Received Date: May 19, 2018 / Accepted Date: May 25, 2018 / Published Date: Jun 01, 2018

Abstract

We performed a case series study on the effectiveness of balloon kyphoplasty (BKP) for painful vertebral compression fractures in 60 patients with acute axial lumbar and/or thoracic spinal pain due to osteoporosis, trauma or cancer, who were referred to the pain center of a general hospital. The pain intensity levels appeared to be statistically significant different between the pain level at baseline (T0) and the three moments of measurement (T1, T2, T3) after the procedure, p<0.001. No statistically significant difference in Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) for pain was found between the three moments of measurement after the procedure. No statistically significant difference in NRS for pain was found between the patients with osteoporosis and those with cancer between T0 and T1 (p=0.48). This study shows that in patients with painful (non) malignant vertebral compression fractures BKP can result in a statistically and clinically significant pain reduction lasting at least one year. There is a need for new high quality studies to define the place of BKP in patients with acute axial back pain due to vertebral compression fractures.

Keywords: Balloon vertebroplasty; Vertebrogenic compression fracture; Osteoporotic fracture; Mechanical low back pain

Citation: van Tilburg CWJ, Groeneweg JG, Stronks DL, Huygen FJPM (2018) Effectiveness of Balloon Kyphoplasty in Patients with Painful Vertebral Compression Fractures. J Pain Relief 7: 323. Doi: 10.4172/2167-0846.1000323

Copyright: © 2018 van Tilburg CWJ, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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