A recent study, published in New England Journal of Medicine, suggests that surgery is much more effective than conservative and conventional treatment. The important thing to remember: this study is for spinal stenosis only! This study cannot be applied to all cases of back pain.
Most people do not realize that back pain can be brought on for multiple reasons. Degenerative disc disease, disc herniation, metastases, urinary tract infection, osteoporosis with fractures are only some of the causes.
Therefore, diagnosis is paramount for further management and prognosis.
The important thing is that back pain because of disc herniation is not that easily treated by surgery, as spinal stenosis. But there are several other ways to manage chronic pain.
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