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Complex Spinal Surgery Offers Advantages for Elderly Patients Suffering From Spinal Stenosis and Other Back Conditions

Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, November 22nd, 2010

"The United States has the highest rate of spine surgery in the world. As baby boomers age, the need for complex spinal surgery will only continue to increase," says Dr. Neel Anand, a leading spine surgeon practicing at the Spine Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, citing a recent study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

According to an April 2010 Reuters article about the JAMA study, records from the federal Medicare program for the elderly and disabled between 2002 and 2007 revealed a 15-fold increase in the rate of complex surgeries to treat spinal stenosis -- a common condition in the elderly in which the spinal...

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Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2010-11-22)

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