Qualitative Review Of Chronic Lower Back Pain Clinical Studies Finds Minimally Invasive Procedure Spares Patients From Spine Surgery
Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:00 AM EST
... A systematic literature review of outcomes from 51 clinical studies and case series finds that the Intradiscal ELECTROTHERMAL* Therapy (IDET*) procedure would spare up to 65 percent of patients with chronic lower back pain from spinal fusion surgery. In addition, the study also found that IDET patients experienced similar outcome benefits when compared against spinal fusion. [click link for full article] ...
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