Patient-reported functional outcomes vary considerably after lower (lumbar) spinal fusion surgery. But the variability mainly reflects patient characteristics, rather than differences in care provided ...

NANTES, France — Two years after lumbar fusion surgery, patients who viewed and performed videotaped rehabilitation exercises and regularly met at a “back café” with other fusion patients had better ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who met evidence-based medicine guidelines for elective lumbar fusion had a greater than three times ...

April 30, 2012 (Miami, Florida) — Lumbar spinal fusion plus laminectomy appears to be a better option than laminectomy alone in terms of quality of life for patients with degenerative grade I ...

Patients with low back pain have a high opioid burden, which increases following spinal fusion surgery; 27% of fusion patients filled opioid prescriptions at least 12 months post surgery. Objectives: ...

A new approach that could revolutionize spinal fusion surgery does away with the need to "flip" patients from their back or side onto their stomach midway through the operation -- a switch researchers ...

The efficacy of fusion surgery in addition to decompression surgery in patients who have lumbar spinal stenosis, with or without degenerative spondylolisthesis, has not been substantiated in ...

Our main purpose was to study the recovery of the spinal fusion patients during a one-year follow-up and compare our patients reported outcomes (PRO) to the values of a matched general population ...