Wanda Kaynor was in a significant amount of pain after sustaining severe injuries at the hands of a buck on Thursday, Oct. 6. At the time, she said, “I didn’t think I was going to make it.” Kaynor attempted a few remedies before visiting Dr. Jake Measom at Evanston Regional Hospital (ERH.)
After preliminary scans and examinations, Measom decided to repair Kaynor’s L1 vertebra with bone jacks. This relatively new procedure, which had reportedly never been performed in southwest Wyoming, is a modernization of the kyphoplasty, or injection of cement into a vertebra.
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