At Spire Clare Park Hospital in Farnham, Surrey, we have several orthopaedic surgeons who carry out vertebroplasty routinely. They work within our laminar flow theatres to reduce the risk of infection. With the support of our physiotherapists, you will be up and about and ready to go home within a day.
Ask your GP for a referral to the orthopaedic team Spire Clare Park Hospital. Alternatively, contact the customer services team for more information.
Vertebroplasty/Kyphoplasty
These are injections of specialised high viscosity cement into a vertebral body in the spine to remove pain from a fracture. Usually the fracture is due to osteoporosis but it can be due to general trauma or tumour.
The surgeon may recommend vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty if you have severe pain needing hospitalisation even before eight weeks, pain after eight weeks, inability to tolerate pain killers.
Vertebroplasty:
This is simple injection of high viscosity cement into the vertebral body. It is usually performed through simple stab incisions in the skin of the back. The cement used is a new high viscosity cement so it does not cause any leakage.
It does not usually correct any collapse of the vertebra it stabilises a painful fracture.
Because this procedure is so simple it can be done as a day case with sedation, and improvement in pain can be expected very quickly.
