Several researchers looked at data from 51 patients and analyzed the degree of degenerative disc disease compared with the patients’ pre- and postoperative clinical outcomes.
They found that the postoperative visual analog scale and Oswestry Disability Index scores improved significantly compared with preoperative levels. The extent of DDD was not associated with the patient’s symptomatology before surgery.
Also, increasing the stage of DDD did not negatively influence the postoperative clinical outcome parameters following TDR.
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