Does the outcome 2 months after lumbar disc surgery predict the outcome 12 months later?

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 968-972

  Häkkinen, Arja ^a   Ylinen, Jari ^a   Kautiainen, Hannu ^a   Airaksinen, Olavi ^c   Herno, Arto ^b   Kiviranta, Ilkka ^a  

^a JYVÄSKYLÄ CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b RHEUMATISM FOUNDATION HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SPINE SURGERY; WORK CAPACITY; WORK DISABILITY;

ADULT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LEG; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038116269     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0963828031000122258     Document Type: Article

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