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My favorite memory ...

age 11, North Carolina, big wave crashed over me and all these jumpy little fish started doing arcs over my head.

My first job ...

age 14, busperson at the Lake George Pancake House.

My best moment ...

my lightweight four pulling 3 boatlengths ahead of Hamilton College in the last 600 meters of the Stonehurst Regatta

Sciences > Surgery How to tell if vertebroplasty is right for you

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Let's back up to what a vertebroplasty is actually an indication for. Our spinal vertebrae are pretty thick bones, but even they can be fractured from a fall, trauma, or general osteoporosis (the bone is too weak/porous to support itself). When this happens, you may feel a focal, excrutiating pain in your spine, if severe difficulty in sitting up, or a chronic ache is the break is from osteoporosis. A Plain x-ray is usually done first that notices the fracture (and makes family docs freak out), but a CT or MRI is needed for further investigation of the extent of the fracture. Luckily, when...

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