Patients with no preoperative back pain have the best outcome after lumbar disc herniation surgery.

Freyr Gauti SigmundssonAnders JoelsonFredrik Strömqvist

Published in: European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society (2021)

Patients without preoperative back pain are good candidates for LDH surgery. 13% of patients without preoperative back pain develop clinically significant back pain one-year after surgery.

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