Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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To describe and test a model to explain the biomechanical basis for persistent pain after compression fractures of the vertebral body. ⋯ In some patients with vertebral compression fractures, the pain may arise from posterior elements and not the fracture itself. This phenomenon has implications for the interpretation of the outcomes of vertebroplasty in both the active and control arms of sham-controlled studies.