3. Car Accidents
Car accidents occur at a rate of hundreds every single day, and many of these have turned into fatal ones for one or more people involved in the accident – and people who survive traumatic physical events such as car accidents can have their entire lives changed from the moment it happens. Car accidents are often tied to a range of health maladies later on in life due to the initial injury, including pain from fractures in the accident, of which compression fractures are common.
Any traumatic injury to the spine can be a potential trigger for a compression fracture should the pressure be located in the right place to “press” the spine hard enough to damage or degenerate vertebrae and discs; car accidents are some of the more dangerous potential causes, and should mean that you visit the emergency room as soon as possible after an accident even if no initial symptoms are shown.