The inclusion criteria for patients were as follows: (1) osteoporotic thoracic or lumbar vertebral compression fractures with a bone density T ... T10 (4 cases), T11 (13 cases), T12 (31 cases), L1 (17 ...

The rib fracture risk was calculated using a ... As shown in the lumbar injury risk curves, the L1 vertebra suffers the highest injury risk among all conditions, so only the compression forces and ...

They analyzed computed tomography (CT) scans of the lumbar vertebrae L1 and L2 from 843 older adults (OAs), including 167 with incident VFs within a 5-year period and 676 without fractures. Image ...