Is spinal surgery effective for back pain?

There have only been a few randomized controlled trials of surgical treatment of chronic low back pain caused by degenerative disc disease. Fusion surgery has been compared primarily with nonoperative treatment, whereas disc arthroplasty has been compared with fusion surgery. The results for either...

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Autores principales: Bogduk, Nikolai, Andersson, Gunnar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medicine Reports Ltd 2009
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2948294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20948720
http://dx.doi.org/10.3410/M1-60
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description There have only been a few randomized controlled trials of surgical treatment of chronic low back pain caused by degenerative disc disease. Fusion surgery has been compared primarily with nonoperative treatment, whereas disc arthroplasty has been compared with fusion surgery. The results for either of the two surgical procedures are modest in terms of pain relief and improved function.
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spelling pubmed-29482942010-10-14 Is spinal surgery effective for back pain? Bogduk, Nikolai Andersson, Gunnar F1000 Med Rep Review Article There have only been a few randomized controlled trials of surgical treatment of chronic low back pain caused by degenerative disc disease. Fusion surgery has been compared primarily with nonoperative treatment, whereas disc arthroplasty has been compared with fusion surgery. The results for either of the two surgical procedures are modest in terms of pain relief and improved function. Medicine Reports Ltd 2009-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2948294/ /pubmed/20948720 http://dx.doi.org/10.3410/M1-60 Text en © 2009 Medicine Reports Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You may not use this work for commercial purposes
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