It’s important to know about the causes, symptoms, and how to treat them. This article will cover the basics, like the vertebra’s anatomy and the end plate’s role.

Focal cortical discontinuity (large arrow) is seen within the superior endplate due to a fracture. This is associated with abnormally increased signal intensity within the T12-L1 intervertebral disk (small …

A compression fracture is a break in a vertebra (a spine bone) and it then collapses. Osteoporosis or physical trauma usually causes it.

This article focuses on fractures of the thoracic spine (midback) and lumbar spine (lower back) that result from a high-energy event, such as a car crash or a fall from a ladder.

This type of vertebral fracture causes loss of height and a humped back, especially in elderly women. This disorder (called kyphosis or a "dowager's hump") is an exaggeration of your spine that causes …

ABSTRACT: Lumbar endplate fractures were investigated in different experimental scenarios, however the biomechanical effect of segmental alignment was not outlined.

Fractures of lumbar vertebrae occur in the setting of either severe trauma or pathologic weakening of the bone, see image R L4 compression fracture. Osteoporosis is the underlying cause of many lumbar …