1. Surgical vs Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disk Herniation.
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Weinstein, James N., Tosteson, Tor D., Lurie, Jon D., Tosteson, Anna N.A., Hanscom, Brett, Skinner, Jonathan S., Abdu, William A., Hilibrand, Alan S., Boden, Scott D., and Deyo, Richard A.
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INTERVERTEBRAL disk hernias ,DISCECTOMY ,INTERVERTEBRAL disk surgery ,CLINICAL trials ,RANDOMIZED controlled trials ,CLINICAL medicine research ,THERAPEUTICS - Abstract
The article presents a randomized controlled trial from the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial that compares the outcomes in patients who received either surgical or nonoperative treatments for lumbar disk herniation. The authors found that the symptoms of patients that underwent the surgery of lumbar diskectomy and those who received nonoperative treatments for lumbar disk herniation improved in both situations. The authors were unable to conclude whether one treatment was better than the other due to overlap of patients between the control and experimental groups.
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- 2006
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