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A clinical trial is being conducted to test alternative treatments for painful vertebral compression fractures - a type of spinal injury.

Scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin are carrying out the KAST trial to test the new vertebral augmentation treatment (Kiva) which will be used to repair the painful spinal fractures, caused by osteoporosis.

This study will compare the results of the new treatment, which uses a coil implant with cement, with the current procedure which involves small orthapedic balloons and cement to help with the spinal injury.

"The study will evaluate whether the Kiva procedure, using a more elastic implant and less cement placed strategically, will be equally safe and effective to kyphoplasty," said Dr Sean Tutton, associate professor of radiology and surgery at the medical college and principal interventional radiology investigator for this trial.

This new treatment comes after news that narcotics and diagnostic testing are used too much when dealing with chronic neck pain, according to researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina.

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