 Every year in the United States more than 700,000 people suffer from compression fractures of the spinal column , and the number of people affected is much higher across the world. Osteoporosis is the main cause of fractures of the vertebral bodies. Other causes of vertebral fractures include malignant processes including benign lesions hemangioma and malignant lesions metastatic cancers, myeloma, infections and trauma; however, osteoporosis is by far the main cause of this problem. 