20% of patients undergoing lumbar discectomy, suffer despite an objective good operation result from persisting lumbar back pain. The aim of our study was to elucidate if unsatisfying results after lumbar discectomy are due to psychological and/ or sociodemographic factors by objective operative success. Between January 2000 and February 2001 130 patients (retrospective) and 105 patients (prospective) underwent lumbar discectomy. Patients with additional retrospondylosis and/ or spinal canal stenosis were excluded. Contentment regarding treatment and social situation was assessed preoperative and/ or 6 weeks postoperatively using Symptom-Check-List-90-R and a sociodemographic questionnaire. Our results show that there is no significant correlation between subjective content with results of standardised operative treatment in case of lumbar discectomy and general psychological factors. There is no relationship between duration of pain and the subjective operation results
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20% of patients undergoing lumbar discectomy, suffer despite an objective good operation result from persisting lumbar back pain. The aim of our study was to elucidate if unsatisfying results after lumbar discectomy are due to psychological and/ or sociodemographic factors by objective operative success. Between January 2000 and February 2001 130 patients (retrospective) and 105 patients (prospective) underwent lumbar discectomy. Patients with additional retrospondylosis and/ or spinal canal ste...
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