Newer, minimally invasive surgery to treat sciatica does not result in better outcomes
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 - 07:14
in Health & Medicine
A comparison of surgical treatments for sciatica finds that the minimally invasive procedure known as tubular diskectomy does not provide a significant difference in improvement of functional disability compared to the more common surgery, conventional microdiskectomy, according to a study in the 8 July issue of JAMA...