[Preventive measures against aging of the spine]

Mesures préventives du vieillissement de la colonne vertébrale. More than 20% of the general population have a normal ageing spine without any pathologies. Because ageing touch more or less quickly, more or less deeply all of the constitutive tissues of the spine bones, joints as muscle and ligaments, prevention measures will be started relatively early around the 50ths and turned toward physical as well as neurosensory exercises in conjunction with cognitive development. If pain, walking difficulties or deformity appears it is necessary to obtain the opinion of a geriatric specialized team including neurologist, nutritional specialist, physical therapist people as well as trained spine surgeon for elderly people in case of the seldom but sometimes mandatory surgical indications.