Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Patients With Movement-related Low Back Pain Have Less Postoperative Satisfaction After Decompression Alone

This study included 138 patients who underwent surgery for 1-level mild DLS. The authors performed PLIF for 79 patients and ME-MILD for 59 patients. When the satisfaction subscale of the Zurich Claudication Questionnaire exceeded 2 points, postoperative satisfaction was considered poor. The clinical characteristics were investigated. Responses to preoperative health-related quality of life questionnaires, such as the Japanese Orthopedic Association Back Pain Evaluation Questionnaire (JOABPEQ), short form-36 health survey (SF-36), and visual analog scale, were compared between the satisfied and unsatisfied groups. Results. In the PLIF group, no endogenous factors influenced postoperative satisfaction. The ME-MILD cohort’s satisfied and unsatisfied patients differed significantly in terms of preoperative lumbar spine dysfunction (P
Source: Spine - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Clinical Case Series Source Type: research