Back pain and radicular pain after lumbar microdiscectomy

Abstract Purpose It is generally expected that lumbar microdiscectomy affects radicular leg pain, but not so much local back pain. The primary objective was to evaluate if the trajectories of changes in pain severity follow similar patterns for back and radicular leg pain after lumbar microdiscectom...

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Main Authors: Konsta Koivunen, Katri I. Pernaa, Mikhail Saltychev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-07-01
Series:BMC Surgery
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12893-023-02114-3