The Aging Spine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Aebi, Max (Editor), Gunzburg, Robert (Editor), Szpalski, Marek (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurology.; Orthopedics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Orthopedics.

Table of Contents:

• Editorial
• The aging of the population: a growing concern for spine care in the twenty-first century
• Review
• Natural history of the aging spine
• Overview of osteoporosis: pathophysiology and determinants of bone strength
• Biomechanics of the aging spine
• Recognizing and reporting osteoporotic vertebral fractures
• Principles of management of osteometabolic disorders affecting the aging spine
• Medical treatment of vertebral osteoporosis
• Bisphosphonates in osteoporosis
• The aging spine: new technologies and therapeutics for the osteoporotic spine
• Vertebroplasty for osteoporotic spine fracture: prevention and treatment
• Interdisciplinary approach to balloon kyphoplasty in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures
• Economic implication of osteoporotic spine disease: cost to society
• Lumbar spinal stenosis in the elderly: an overview
• The conservative surgical treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis in the elderly
• Cervical myelopathy: clinical and neurophysiological evaluation
• Anterior decompression for cervical spondylotic myelopathy
• Posterior approach to the degenerative cervical spine
• Spinal metastasis in the elderly.