This session explores how poor bone quality impacts spine surgery outcomes and the proactive steps surgeons are taking to identify at-risk patients, optimize bone health, and adapt surgical strategies to reduce complications and revisions.
This session looks beyond DXA scores to identify rare, often-missed bone diseases that impair bone quality and increase surgical risk. Learn when to pursue additional workup, how diagnosis guides treatment, and review real-world case examples.
This session reviews current approaches to diagnosing osteoporosis and assessing fracture risk, how risk guides treatment choice, the mechanisms and indications of major osteoporosis drugs, and strategies to recognize and manage side effects for safe
Practical bone health screening for adult spinal deformity surgeons. Learn why screening matters, who to screen and when, and how to use DXA, VFA, FRAX/TBS, CT HU, and MRI VBQ to assess fixation risk and guide a green/yellow/red optimization pathway.
