Degenerative Disc Disease Surgery

Chronic low back pain is pain that lasts for more than three consecutive months. It is associated with degenerative disc disease that impairs spinal motion. Degenerative disc disease is common in elderly persons and may end up causing severe lower back pain. Regardless of the many studies conducted, the results of spinal fusion after degenerative disc disease are not well established. This situation, thereby, triggered the research in order to outline the overall outcomes after a successful surgery apparently. There is also little knowledge of whether the physical therapy after a surgery works at all. The research conducted was a comparison of many previous studies that have covered the degenerative disc disease and establish the standard solutions they have offered. All the materials and the methodology used are discussed at length while the last section gives the discussions and the proposed conclusions.Degenerative Disc Disease Surgery

Degenerative disc disease treatment

Degenerative disc surgery is performed if the pain source is in the motion segment of the spine. Patients whose non-operative management fails to work efficiently may also be subjected to a clinical surgery. The recovery after the surgery takes a while and can even deteriorate to worse conditions if care is not taken. The contemporary randomized controlled trials are not reliable to address the effects of a spine fusion and how to deal with them. Different studies offer different solutions to this problem.

Materials and Methods

All adults diagnosed with degenerative disc disease and had undergone any spine fusion surgery were reviewed during the study. Cochrane and Medline databases were used to validate the patients who had been reported with varying clinical outcomes. Results were generated from various forms such as short form health survey, patient satisfaction, Oswestry disability index, and analogue scale. The final study draft was published after one year of intense patient follow-up. The averages of each category were computed and a comparison drawn from the existing differential values (Frank et al., 2013). Degenerative Disc Disease Surgery