Low back fractures: Although deaths in traffic accidents have decreased due to improved measures in recent years, an increase in spinal fractures has emerged as a result of the increasing speed of vehicles. Of course, the damage to the spinal cord and nerves in these fractures also aggravates the patient’s condition. That’s why you must have an experienced neurosurgeon alongside the orthopedists in the team that treats these fractures.
As these patients, especially elderly and female patients, need to be stood up as soon as possible; Inevitably, “Platinum Surgery”, as it is known among the people, must be performed. Of course, these surgeries can now be performed as closed. Patients who have fractures in the hip and coccyx along with the waist bones should definitely be operated by experienced teams.
If these fractures are due to osteoporosis in elderly people; If they occur due to very simple traumas, it is also possible to repair them by fully closed surgery, that is, by inflating a balloon in the bone and correcting it, and then filling the bone with bone cement. However, the point that should not be forgotten is that these operations should be performed within the first few months after the event that caused the fracture.
