Systems and methods treating a vertebral body

摘要

An inelastic expandable device has an expanded configuration and an unexpanded configuration. The inelastic expandable device is sized and configured for introduction into a cancellous bone volume of a vertebral body through a percutaneous access path while in the unexpanded condition and for expansion while disposed within the cancellous bone volume from the unexpanded configuration toward the expanded configuration. The inelastic expandable device is sized and configured for controlling the expansion so that the expandable device expands more in an inferior-to-superior direction than in a lateral direction.