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Isolated Transverse Process Fractures: Should We Offer Lumbar Corset or Not?
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- Transverse Process Fractures in Athletes: Mechanisms, Management and Return-to-Play Considerations.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Review
- Lumbar Transverse Process Stress Fractures in Adolescent Athletes: A Report of Two Rare Cases.Cureus · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background The aim of this study is to emphasize the need to be careful in terms of internal organ injuries in patients with isolated transverse process fracture (ITPF), and to investigate the effectiveness of corset use in controlling acute pain. Methods This is a retrospective study including 72 patients with only transverse process fractures secondary to trauma, who were admitted to the Emergency Department of Sakarya University Research and Training Hospital between January 2020 and October 2022. The radiological diagnoses were collected from spinal vertebral computed tomography images. Twelve patients were excluded from the study due to exclusion criteria. Sixty patients with ITPF were included in the comparison group. All patients were divided into two groups. The group with no lumbar corset (LC) included those who were discharged with analgesic and muscle relaxant treatment without a brace (n = 33). The LC+ group (n = 27) included those who received rigid lumbosacral orthosis in addition to analgesic and muscle relaxant treatment. Pain levels of all cases in both groups were evaluated with Visual Analog Scale scores on the day of trauma, the first week, the first month, and the sixth month. Results A total of 25 cases had one ITPF, 25 had two, 17 had three, and five patients had four or more ITPFs. The hospitalization rate was the highest among patients with four or more ITPFs (40%). Although the hospitalization rates according to the number of ITPFs were not statistically significant (p = 0.528), there was a clinical significance regarding increasing hospitalization rates with the increasing number of ITPFs. The hospitalization rates were 12%, 16%, 17.6%, and 40% in patients with one, two, three, and four or more ITPFs, respectively. Conclusion ITPFs should be treated conservatively. Concomitant organ injuries must be ruled out before treatment. Medical treatment without a lumbar corset could be used as a cost-effective choice.
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