Playing on the floor with her dog, Belle, wasn't possible for Robin Brunnquell after she slipped and broke her back last Christmas.
"The pain was so bad you couldn't even cry," Brunnquell said.
The moments leading up to the fall began in 2007 when Brunnquell was treated for asthma with the steroid prednisone. It led to osteoporosis and a condition that causes her bones to crumble.
"Avascular necrosis is where the bone gets deprived of blood," explained Brunnquell, whose airway collapsed. "My bones were so frail from when they put the tracheal stint in, I broke four ribs from coughing."
Brunnquell also broke her pelvis and had to replace both shoulders and hips.
Dr. Sean Tutton, an interventional radiologist at Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin, said, while Brunnquell is an extreme case, "osteoporosis is the main cause of these fractures. You're walking. You're doing stairs. You're doing maybe light weights, and those are the things that help you to preserve your skeleton."
In Brunnquell's case, Tutton devised a way to fix her pelvis with medical grade cement.
"We inject the cement to basically glue that back together again," Tutton explained.
When Brunnquell broke her back, Tutton used the cement and a new spine implant, known as KIVA, that works like an internal cast to heal her spine. Now Brunnquell is back on her feet.
"Sometimes, when you think there's no hope, there's hope," Brunnquell said.
Brunnquell said she's thrilled with the results of her surgeries and is thankful to Tutton and his team.
To prevent the disease, he recommends supplementing with vitamin D, calcium and regular exercise.
Tutton also said smoking and drinking alcohol can put you at risk for osteoporosis. He said, since the disease often runs in families, consider having a bone density test done to measure your risk, if it runs in yours.
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