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 ...

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 ...