Commentary on: The role of surgery for treatment of low back pain: Insights from the randomized controlled SPORT trials.

CONCLUSIONS: Here, the 6 SPORT studies and short commentaries following each study indicate the pros, cons, and shortcomings of each investigation are presented. Notably, if surgeons better selected patients for surgery and avoided unnecessary procedures for "black discs alone" or pain alone, the results of the surgical intervention would likely be more clearly confirmed. PMID: 27843678 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Surgical Neurology International - Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Surg Neurol Int Source Type: research