On January 24, 2019 the New York Times published this article on vertebroplasty (surgery involving injection of cement into vertebrae) as treatment for painful vertebral fractures such as I am dealing with now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/health/spinal-fracture-treatment.html
Written by NYT Health Writer Gina Kolata, this article was based on an article published that day in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jbmr.3653
I'll add more text about this later but I wanted to get these websites out now.
Once again, anything in these or any other information on these pages you decide to adopt for yourself should be checked out with your own qualified health care provider.