Spine Surgery in an Aging Population -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Assessing the Aging Patient -- 2 Age-Related Changes in the Spine -- 3 Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis in the Aging Spine Patient -- 4 Surgical Decision-Making in the Aging Population -- 5 Perioperative Optimization in the Aging Population -- 6 Value-Based Care in the Aging Spine -- 7 Cervical Fractures -- 8 Thoracic and Thoracolumbar Fractures -- 9 Lumbar Fractures -- 10 External Orthosis Management -- 11 Spinal Cord Injury and Central Cord Syndrome -- 12 Cervical Spondylosis with Myelopathy -- 13 Cervical Deformity -- 14 Lumbar Stenosis with Neurogenic Claudication -- 15 Lumbar Spondylolisthesis -- 16 Sagittal Plane Malalignment and Degenerative Scoliosis in the Aging Spine -- 17 Nonsurgical Pain Management -- 18 Interventional Pain Treatment Options -- 19 Vertebral Augmentation for Insufficiency Fractures -- 20 Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Aging Spine -- 21 Techniques for Spinal Instrumentation in the Aging Spine -- Index.