News tagged with herniated disc
Re-op rates ID'd for herniated intervertebral disc disease
(HealthDay)—For patients undergoing surgery for lumbar herniated intervertebral disc disease, reoperation rates reach 13.4 percent after five years, with more than half of reoperations occurring in the ...
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Apr 16, 2013 |
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Lumbar disc herniation surgery is effective for octogenarians
(HealthDay)—For octogenarian patients with lumbar disc herniation, unilateral laminectomy and discectomy seems safe and effective, according to a study published in the April issue of the Journal of Sp ...
Surgery
Apr 08, 2013 |
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Spine MRIs often show harmless 'defects,' study finds
(HealthDay)—Even though expensive MRIs produce very detailed images for assessing back pain, they may not be very good at evaluating results after treatment, research suggests.
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Mar 13, 2013 |
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Less benefit for obese with lumbar disc herniation tx
(HealthDay)—Obese patients derive less benefit from both operative and non-operative lumbar disc herniation treatment, according to a study published in the Jan. 2 issue of The Journal of Bone & Joint Su ...
Surgery
Feb 08, 2013 |
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Improved driving reaction times after lumbar disc sx
(HealthDay)—Driving reaction times (DRTs), which are increased for patients with radiculopathy, improve after lumbar disc surgery, according to a study published in the November issue of the European Sp ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 15, 2013 |
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Study finds poorer outcomes for obese patients treated for lumbar disc herniation
While obese patients are more likely to have surgical treatment for lumbar disc herniation – a slipped or ruptured disc – than nonobese patients, obesity increases operative time, blood loss and length of hospital stay, ...
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Jan 10, 2013 |
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Surgery consultation common after MRI of the spine
(HealthDay)—Almost half of patients whose primary care physicians recommend a lumbosacral or cervical spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan go on to receive a surgical consultation, but few end up ...
Surgery
Jan 02, 2013 |
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Review compares surgeries for sciatica due to herniated disc
(HealthDay)—No conclusions can be drawn with regard to the comparative efficacy of open, microscopic, and tubular discectomy surgical techniques to treat sciatica due to a herniated disc, according to the ...
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Nov 10, 2012 |
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New decision aid for treatment of herniated disc beneficial
(HealthDay)—A new patient decision instrument meets the criteria of acceptability, reliability, and validity, and improves the quality of patient decision-making for treatment of a herniated disc, according ...
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Aug 23, 2012 |
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Good stability with artificial disc plus cage fusion
(HealthDay) -- For patients with multi-level cervical disc herniation, artificial cervical disc replacement and adjacent segment cage fusion achieves definite stabilization and satisfactory mobility, according ...
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Aug 10, 2012 |
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Targeted exercise relieves sciatica pain
(HealthDay) -- Active conservative symptom-guided therapy for severe sciatica can safely reduce pain and improve neurological function at a rate that matches or surpasses outcomes from common higher-cost surgical ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Surgical treatment within six months of lumbar disc herniation
A new study in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) found that patients with herniated lumbar disc symptoms were significantly worse if the patients had symptoms for more than six months prior to treatment, compared to t ...
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Oct 25, 2011 |
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Biomarker may signal whether common back pain treatment will work, doctor finds
A new study from researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has identified a unique protein complex that can be used to predict whether an epidural steroid injection will help relieve pain caused by a herniated ...
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Aug 11, 2011 |
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