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The surgical treatment of low back pain
1Department of Orthopaedics, UCLA School of Medicine, USA.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America
|January 20, 1999
Abstract:
If nonoperative management fails to relieve a clearly identifiable and surgically treatable cause of lumbar pain, then surgery may be beneficial. Certain "red flags" indicate the need for urgent or emergent surgical intervention. Low back pain is associated with several degenerative conditions in the lumbar spine, including degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, degenerative scoliosis, facet joint syndrome, and disc herniation.