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Minimally Invasive Surgery Not Better for Sciatica

9th July 2009 by admin 2 Comments

Minimally invasive surgery for the excruciating back pain that can be caused by sciatica didn’t work as well as the conventional procedure in a Dutch study.
“The expected treatment benefit of a faster rate of recovery from sciatica after tubular diskectomy could not be reproduced by this double-blind study,” according to a report in the July [...]

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