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Broken Back
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Causes
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There's a couple of different causes for breaking your back. Most of them are traumatic. For me, it was snowboarding. It was a big impact on my lower back and it caused a compression fracture in my spine. A lot of people have osteoporosis when they get old, which causes brittle bones and makes it so their spines also fracture pretty easily.