Efficacy of a specific rehabilitation protocol in postural control of a young woman with multiple fragility vertebral fractures: a case report

The fragility vertebral fractures have a considerable impact on an individual's health-related quality of life due to pain, limitations in activity, social participation, altered mood and balance impairment. Physiotherapy interventions may have an important role in improving quality of life, ba...

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Published in:Clinical cases in mineral and bone metabolism 2016-01, Vol.13 (1), p.67-70
Main Authors: Raffaetà, Gloria, Falossi, Francesca, Menconi, Agnese, Genovesi, Chiara, Mazzantini, Maurizio, Bottai, Vanna, Guido, Giulio
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Language:English
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Summary:The fragility vertebral fractures have a considerable impact on an individual's health-related quality of life due to pain, limitations in activity, social participation, altered mood and balance impairment. Physiotherapy interventions may have an important role in improving quality of life, balance and reducing the fracture risk in people with osteoporotic vertebral fractures. In literature there are only a few studies that examine exercise interventions in osteoporotic populations with vertebral fracture and few studies that examine the effects on balance with instrumental measurements. In this paper we present a case of a woman with fragility vertebral fractures and a related balance impairment and the effects of a specific rehabilitation program using both clinical evaluations that instrumental measurements.
ISSN:1724-8914
1971-3266
1971-3266
DOI:10.11138/ccmbm/2016.13.1.067