“Surgery to relieve chronic lower back pain is no better than intensive rehabilitation and nearly twice as expensive” concluded researchers in a Reuters article published Monday. The researchers at Nuffield Orthopedic Center in Oxford England studied 349 patients with back pain who either had surgery or intensive rehab.
According to Jeremy Fairbank, an orthopedic surgeon at the center “This is strong evidence that intensive rehabilitation is a good thing to do for people with chronic back pain who are thinking of having about having operations
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