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Table 3 Visual analog scale (VAS) scores and Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) in patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (x ± s, n = 236)

From: Evaluation of surgical outcome of Jack vertebral dilator kyphoplasty for osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture—clinical experience of 218 cases

Before surgery

VAS

8.2 ± 1.3

ODI (%)

78.2 ± 13.3

One week post surgery

1.7 ± 0.9#

18.5 ± 7.3#

Final follow-up

1.8 ± 0.8*

20.9 ± 6.8*

  1. # means that P < 0.01 versus the preoperative data; *P > 0.05 versus 1 week post surgery