Objectives Evidence comparing the effectiveness of surgical and conservative treatment of symptomatic lumbar disc herniation is controversial. We sought to compare short-term and long-term ...

Lumbar disc hernias can be alleviated with conservative treatments such as painkillers in around 80% of cases, but for the remaining 20%, surgery was the only way to control the pain. However ...

Background and purpose Although the standard treatment for lumbar disc herniation is lumbar microdiscectomy, nucleoplasty offers a new technique with encouraging results in well selected cases.

The study also highlighted the importance of standardized diagnostic criteria to ensure accurate identification and treatment ... from CES due to lumbar disc herniation. Additionally, a systematic ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Surgical treatment of lumbar disc herniation is a widely debated topic, with several techniques available. Percutaneous endoscopic discectomy (PELD) has gained popularity due to ...

Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) affects millions globally, with annual healthcare costs exceeding $100 billion in the United States alone, driving increasing interest in minimally invasive radiological ...

Oxygen-ozone therapy is an emerging treatment option for individuals ... the efficacy of oxygen-ozone therapy for managing lumbar disc herniation. One study conducted a retrospective analysis ...

with conservative treatment advice. The need for evaluation by a surgeon was considered on an individual basis, and the final choice of surgery was decided by the patient and surgeon. The inclusion ...

A 73-year-old patient, known for a previous laminoplasty at L2–L3 and L3–L4, presented with right lumbar radiculopathy with no neurological deficit. A prior conventional MRI described a large L2–L3 ...

5 Neurosurgical Clinic, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 6 Orthopaedic Clinic Friedrichsheim, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt ...

The mean treatment effect for the primary outcome was 1.1 ... In patients with chronic low back pain with and without previous surgery for disc herniation, lumbar fusion was not superior to cognitive ...

Pedro Gil was hardly able to move before he came to The Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment in 2017. Gil, a resident of the Dominican Republic, had struggled with a thoracic disc herniation for 10 ...