Comparison of spinal fusion and nonoperative treatment in patients with chronic low back pain: long-term follow-up of three randomized controlled trials
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society | 10 Nov 2013
AF Mannion, JI Brox and JC Fairbank
Abstract
Chronic low back pain (cLBP) represents a major challenge to our health care systems. The relative efficacy of surgery over nonoperative treatment for the treatment of cLBP remains controversial, and little is known of the long-term comparative outcomes.
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- Back pain, Spinal fusion, Epidemiology, Health care, Randomized controlled trial, Medicine, Low back pain
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