Surgery More Effective Than Nonoperative Treatment for Degenerative Spondylolisthesis, Study Finds

Patients who met the inclusion criteria for degenerative spondylolisthesis improved more with surgery than with nonoperative treatment, according to a study published in Spine.

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Patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis were treated and then were analyzed according to the treatment they received. Three-hundred-and-ninety-five patients were treated with surgery and 210 were given nonoperative treatment.

 

The study found that patients improved significantly more with surgery than with nonoperative treatment.

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