1.1 Percutaneous vertebroplasty, and percutaneous balloon kyphoplasty without stenting, are recommended as options for treating osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures only in people:
who have severe ongoing pain after a recent, unhealed vertebral fracture despite optimal pain management and
in whom the pain has been confirmed to be at the level of the fracture by physical examination and imaging.
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