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 ...

The mean treatment effect for the primary outcome was 1.1 ... spinal stenosis with reduced walking distance and neurological signs; disc herniation or lateral recess stenosis with clinical signs of ...

and people can get well from a disc herniation non-operatively some of the time. The way to assess a non-operative vs. a surgical treatment plan is by using the size of the fragment and other ...

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.

A prior conventional MRI described a large L2–L3 left paramedian disc herniation. As no treatment succeeded to relieve the symptoms, surgery was indicated. During the operation, no hernia was found in ...

In the surgical intervention group, a disc herniation removal through a unilateral transflaval approach using optical magnification was performed. Prolonged conservative treatment regimen was defined ...

Treatment and care are always required to ... as the body can often partially or sometimes completely resorb the disc herniation," says Gatto. "The chemical irritation often also dissipates." ...

They observed that surgery for disc herniations occurs when a patient has significant myotomal weakness, severe pain or pain that persists beyond an arbitrary conservative treatment period of 2–8 ...

It discusses other factors in diagnosis, including treatment options and how your healthcare provider can determine if they ...