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- Title
Sciatica Surgery Only Temporarily Lessens Pain, Disability.
- Authors
Harris, Emily
- Abstract
Medical News in Brief Discectomies for sciatica, a condition often caused by a herniated disk, might be better than nonsurgical treatments or epidural steroid injections for reducing leg pain and disability in some patients, although the improvements declined over time to a negligible benefit after 12 months. Because secondary care referrals are made for those who have not responded to other types of treatment or have severe pain, the findings are not necessarily generalizable to a primary care population, the authors wrote in I The BMJ i .
- Subjects
SCIATICA; DISABILITIES; INTERVERTEBRAL disk hernias; SURGERY; EPIDURAL injections; LEG pain
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2023, Vol 329, Issue 19, p1634
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2023.6627