broke her back = broke her spinal column?

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Some details of Taylor's medical history
According to media archives, she had been a regular smoker well into her fifties. An x-ray scan revealed spots on her lungs in 1975, but lung cancer was eventually ruled out.
She broke her back five times
She had two hip replacements
She survived skin cancer
She underwent a brain tumor operation (benign)
Twice she had life-threatening pneumonia
She received treatment for alcoholism in the 1980s
She received drug addiction treatment in 1983 and 1988 at the Betty Ford Clinic
She was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2004
When seen in a wheelchair she explained that it was due to her osteoporosis and that she was born with scoliosis (sideways curving of the spine)

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dadpad wrote:

When an injury occurs in the back section of the spinal column, and the individual vertabrae become fractured or dislocated, the back can be described as broken or fractured.

The section of the spine refered to as the back portion of the spine consists of four sections, the Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacral and Coccygeal sections. The Sacral and Coccygeal sections are fused together as one bone.

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If the spinal column (nerves) becomes damaged A person is usually confined to a wheelchair. If only the verterbrae are fractured this is not the case.

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@oristarA,

Yes. When an injury occurs in the back section of the spinal column, and the individual vertabrae become fractured or dislocated, the back can be described as broken or fractured.

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Thank you both.

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broke her back = broke her spinal column?

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