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Old Spines , Need New Ideas :
SPINE HARDWARE
UPDATE
on ’ t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great .” – John D . Rockefeller
Before you ’ ve blown out the candles on your 50th birthday cake , your bones have probably started to lose density . That fun fact comes courtesy of the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation . And , you have company — 44 million Americans have low bone density — and another 10 million carry an osteoporosis diagnosis .
More than 50 million Americans , many of whom also have back pain , are at increased risk of fracture .[ i ]
ARTICLE BY ELIZABETH HOFHEINZ ,
M . P . H ., M . ED .
When these folks , most of whom are active well into their later years , do have severe back pain , and the best recommendation their doctor can offer is spine surgery , then the problem of relying on osteopenic or osteoporotic bone to secure
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