Thoracolumbar Spine Treatment |

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Thoracolumbar Spine Fractures Types, Causes,
Symptoms and Treatment Options
The human spine is housed inside a bony spinal
column made up of 33 bones that are interlocked
and stacked up against one another along with
muscle, tendons and ligaments. These bones are
called vertebrae and the entire spinal column of
these bones are divided into cervical, thoracic,
lumbar, sacrum, and coccyx regions. A fracture
(break) to the vertebrae in thoracic and lumbar
spine regions is called a thoracolumbar spine
fracture. A thoracolumbar spine fracture is a
severe injury that can cause ligament damage,
vertebra misalignment and injury to the spinal
cord and other neurological structures, according
to Children and Adult Spinal Surgeon Mr. Jwalant
S Mehta. Read on to know more

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Thoracolumbar Spine Fractures Types, Causes,
Symptoms and Treatment Options

• What causes thoracolumbar spine fracture?
• Events that cause high energy trauma violent
  sports injuries, and motor vehicle accidents are
  the common causes of thoracolumbar spine
  fractures. The sudden intense and abrupt impact
  that occurs in these high-energy impact events
  can crack the bones, rupture the bones, damage
  the ligaments and harm the spinal cord causing
  neurological damage.
• These types of fractures as their name suggests
  happening in the transition area of the flexible
  lumbar spine and immobile thoracic spine. Even
  low-energy trauma can also cause injury to the
  invertebrate disc. So depending on the cause and
  intensity of the injury, the type of
  thoracolumbar fracture may be classified into
• Burst fracture
• Compassion fracture
• Chance fracture
• Dislocation fracture

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Thoracolumbar Spine Fractures Types, Causes,
Symptoms and Treatment Options
Symptoms and Diagnosis Intense back pain and
stiffness are signature symptoms of the
thoracolumbar spine fracture. But in high-energy
trauma events, a patient may suffer injuries to
the other body parts as well, and relatively the
pain may below to identify the damage in the
back. Usually, weakness, numbness in the legs and
radiating pain are other symptoms in patients who
may have suffered neurological compression.
Since the fractures are caused by high-energy
trauma events injuries to other body parts and
internal organs is possible too. A thoracolumbar
spine fracture is the first thing a spine surgeon
or Orthopaedic surgeon in UK looks for when a
patient is involved in an accident or major
trauma. Medical history, clinical studies,
physical and imaging studies are used for the
diagnosis by a spine surgeon when it comes to
thoracolumbar spine fracture.
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Thoracolumbar Spine Fractures Types, Causes,
Symptoms and Treatment Options
Treatment for thoracolumbar spine fracture in
UK A spine surgeon treats thoracolumbar spine
fractures with both non-surgical and surgical
treatment options. The choice is made based on
the severity of the fracture and the patients
medical history. Non-surgical options for
thoracolumbar spine fracture include braces and
medication. Surgical options include fusing the
fractured vertebrae using posterior spinal fusion
and also instrumentation where rods and metal
screws are used to stabilize the spine. Anterior
and posterior spinal surgery are prescribed by
the spinal surgeons in case of thoracolumbar
spine fractures where the spine is destabilized
severely. In rare cases, surgical decompression
may also be required to improve the patients
ability to recover from neurological damage,
happened.
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Thoracolumbar Spine Fractures Types, Causes,
Symptoms and Treatment Options

• However, the exact type of treatment options
  prescribed by the spinal surgeon varies based on
  the types of fractures that were listed above. If
  you are living in and around Birmingham and are
  looking for a spinal surgeon London for
  thoracolumbar spine fracture treatment then you
  can contact Children and Adult Spinal Surgeon Mr
  Jwalant S.Mehta here https//www.mehtaspine.co.uk
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Contact us

• Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
• BMI The Priory Hospital
• Spire Parkway Hospital
• Bromsgrove Private Clinic

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Contact and Connect

• Clinical secretary Samantha Leavy 44 785 021
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• Medico-legal secretary Jan Clarke 44 121
  4508928
• Spire Parkway Hospital 0121 704 5500
• BMI NEC (National Enquiry Centre) 0808 101 0337
• BMI Priory 0121 446 1638
• Email secretary_at_mehtaspine.co.uk
• The appointments are booked through the clinic