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Lumbar microdiscectomy and post-operative activity restrictions: a protocol for a single blinded randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Lumbar microdiscectomy is the most commonly performed spinal surgery procedure, with over 300,000 cases performed annually in the United States alone. Traditionally, patients were advised to restrict post-operative activity as this was believed to reduce the risk of disc reherniation and...

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Autores principales: Daly, Chris D., Lim, Kai Zheong, Lewis, Jennifer, Saber, Kelly, Molla, Mohammed, Bar-Zeev, Naor, Goldschlager, Tony
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5520336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28728580
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-017-1681-3