These treatments are used commonly in cancer patients and elderly patients with compression fractures of the spine resulting in weakened bones or pain.

These treatments involve the placement of a needle through the skin in the back into a osteoporotic compression fracture site or into a site of a fracture because of a tumour involving the spine.  Then acrylic cement is placed into the broken or weakened bone allowing the level to be stabilized allowing pain to be improved and preventing future fracture.