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Engineering to protect brittle bones.(physician promotes use of bone cements)(Brief Article)
2002 JUL 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Leeds University engineer Dr. Ruth Wilcox is on a mission - to help people with osteoporosis. She has just won a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering, starting August 1, 2002, which will enable her to devote the next 5 years of her research to improving treatment of patients with osteoporosis and other painful bone disorders.
Wilcox's main focus is to optimize a technique called percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP), which can be used to treat vertebral compression fractures, suffered by many elderly people with osteoporosis. PVP involves injecting special bone cement into the vertebrae of the spine to stabilize them - it is minimally invasive and ...
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