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Low Back Pain After Lumbar Discectomy

Unfortunately,  up to 25% of patients who had lumbar discectomy surgery may have recurrent back pain after surgery.  A recent study out of Vanderbilt University performed a meta analysis of available studies on discectomy patients,  as well as prospectively following patients that had surgery at Vanderbilt.  The results of both the meta analysis and the […]