Physical Therapy as Effective as Surgery for Degenerative Disk Disease

Physical Therapy as Effective as Surgery for Degenerative Disk Disease :Before undergoing surgical spinal fusion, patients with degenerative disk disease should first try physical therapy.A study conducted at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital ("Operative and Nonoperative Treatment Approaches for Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease Have Similar Long-Term Clinical Outcomes Among Patients With Positive Discography" - September 15, 2013) found that "patients with back pain and concordant discography did not demonstrate a significant difference in outcome measures of pain, health status, satisfaction, or disability based on whether the patient elected for fusion or non-operative treatment."

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