The Aging Spine [electronic resource] /
Aebi, Max.editor.
Gunzburg, Robert.editor.
Szpalski, Marek.editor.
Draws our attention with intensity to the problem of the changes related to aging of our musculoskeletal system and the associated socioeconomic implications. This book covers most of the important problems, which are included in the specter of aging spine: osteoporosis, spinal stenosis, and tumors of the spine.
Description based upon print version of record.
Draws our attention with intensity to the problem of the changes related to aging of our musculoskeletal system and the associated socioeconomic implications. This book covers most of the important problems, which are included in the specter of aging spine: osteoporosis, spinal stenosis, and tumors of the spine.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Orthopedics.
Neurology .
Surgical Orthopedics.
Orthopedics.
Neurology.