Caballol stated the plane fell 150 feet, and he suffered from various injuries, including broken vertebrae, several broken bones, and a skull fracture. He also lost mobility in part of his face.

You can break a vertebra in your 60s or your 70s or beyond. And a vertebral fracture, yes, many of them kind of don't get diagnosed, but often, they are painful, not all of them, when they occur.

Whether infrequent zoledronate administration would prevent vertebral fractures in early postmenopausal women is unknown. We conducted a 10-year, prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo ...

For early postmenopausal women, zoledronate administered at baseline and 5 years is effective for preventing morphometric vertebral fracture.