Hiroyuki Nakarai, So Kato, Yujiro Hirao, Omri Maayan, Naohiro Kawamura, Akiro Higashikawa, Yujiro Takeshita, Takashi Ono, Masayoshi Fukushima, Nobuhiro Hara, Seiichi Azuma, Hiroki Iwai, Yuki Taniguchi, Yoshitaka Matsubayashi, Katsushi Takeshita, Sakae Tanaka, Yasushi Oshima
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study is to investigate the coexisting lower back pain (LBP) in patients with cervical myelopathy and to evaluate changes in LBP after cervical spine surgery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Only a few studies with a small number of participants have evaluated the association between cervical myelopathy surgery and postoperative improvement in LBP. METHODS: Patients who underwent primary cervical decompression surgery with or without fusion for myelopathy and completed preoperative and 1-year postoperative questionnaires were reviewed using a prospectively collected database involving 9 tertiary referral hospitals...
January 9, 2024: Clinical Spine Surgery