Buchbinder's stop at our studio was just a few hours before his performance of a Beethoven Piano Concerto at Symphony Hall with the Dresden Staatskapelle.
"There is no plausible reason why it would work where vertebroplasty doesn't work, " said Buchbinder, who calls for blinded trials looking at the benefits of kyphoplasty.
"I don't think they should be done" any more outside of research studies, said Monash University rheumatologist Rachelle Buchbinder, who led the second study, done in Australia.
Buchbinder is intense in many ways he's a perfectionist who insists on absolute reverence for original manuscripts and has no time for publishers who add parenthetical fingerings or dynamics.