Headline : Mayo Clinic Minute: Improving bone health before spinal surgery

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As people age, bones lose some of their structure. Osteopenia and osteoporosis are both conditions in which bones become less dense and, therefore, can break more easily. These kinds of bone density issues are common among spinal surgery patients who are 50 and older. To avoid surgical complications, Mayo Clinic works with these patients on improving bone health before spinal surgery.

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Making sure a patient's bones are as healthy as possible before undergoing spinal surgery has been shown to lower the rate of complications.

"These are already high-risk surgeries. And so we want to get the risks as low as possible before proceeding," says Dr. Benjamin Elder, a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon.

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