For patients with fragile bones, the risk for fracture can be a matter of life and death. I’m James Webb, MD, an Interventional Musculoskeletal Radiologist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. My goal is to help patients find freedom from pain without invasive surgery or...
Search the internet and you may find estimates of vertebral compression fractures (VCF) in the US. There are statistics out there and they are often quoted by doctors and research articles. However, what most people don’t realize is that these numbers are based on...
This article was originally published in the May 2019 newsletter of the Tulsa County Medical Society. Why this article? Yes, it’s Osteoporosis Month. I’ll assume most of my colleagues are familiar with basic Wikipedia level info, so this won’t be...
The largest clinical trial of its kind – the EVOLVE kyphoplasty study – tracked the results of 350 back pain patients who underwent balloon kyphoplasty. The study began with baseline measurements before kyphoplasty was completed. Then starting at 7 days...
Dr. James Webb is a board certified musculoskeletal radiologist who specializes in osteoporosis treatment and interventional pain management in Tulsa, Oklahoma.