SPINAL FRACTURE Treatment in Ionia, MI
Vitruvian Health is a multispecialty health organization aiming to bring together professionals with broad clinical experiences, including pain management, acute care, sedation and anesthesia, surgical techniques, primary care, musculoskeletal care, and rehabilitation. These experiences, along with years of successful treatment of fractures, have revealed deficiencies in initial detection and accessing timely fracture care. This has led to the formation of the Spinal Fracture Institute, built around an acute care model. Our objective is to offer excellence through patient-centered outpatient care and highly optimized workflows, dramatically improving detection, accessibility, and time-to-treat.
Early screening and detection are critical to rule out new or progressing fractures in all patients with acute axial spinal pain, especially those with risk factors. A negative screen is superior to an undetected fracture.
Prompt vertebral augmentation procedures are minimally invasive and provide the best outcomes. These include kyphoplasty, vertebroplasty, and sacroplasty, which fill the fracture with medical-grade cement to stop progression and improve pain, often completely. When a delay occurs, negative consequences include decreased treatment success, increased morbidity and mortality, and diminished quality of life. Other fractures are treated with a sense of urgency to promote the best possible outcomes, and we firmly believe vertebral compression fractures should be treated with an equal sense of priority.
Conservative therapies are not a replacement for definitive treatment with vertebral augmentation procedures. However, as a community resource, the Spinal Fracture Institute can assist by providing appropriate medications and proper spinal bracing to help palliate and temporize initial symptoms and decrease fracture progression.
We consider all patients with a potential diagnosis of a vertebral compression fracture to be urgent in nature, whether a formal diagnosis has been established or a patient has only met symptom and risk criteria. Upon notification, a Spinal Fracture Institute care coordinator will reach out as soon as possible, usually within an hour. Interventional treatment is performed as soon as possible, often within one to two days, once diagnostic imaging criteria have been met.
The Spinal Fracture Institute of Vitruvian Health has shifted the paradigm of managing fractures by improving early screening and detection while delivering optimal treatment. We invite you to be a part of the new standard and embrace the mindset: “Think Spinal Fracture First.”
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IONIA
431 Swartz Ct, Suite 200
Ionia, MI, USA 48846
Grand Rapids
1000 East Paris, Suite 221
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
LANSING
120 N Washington Square
Lansing, MI 48933
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IONIA
Monday - Friday
8:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday - Sunday : Closed
Grand Rapids
Monday - Friday
8:00am - 5:00pm
By Scheduled Appointment
Saturday - Sunday : Closed
Lansing (Virtual Office)
Monday - Friday
8:00am - 5:00pm
By Scheduled Appointment
Saturday - Sunday : Closed