Multidisciplinary rehabilitation or surgery for chronic low back pain -7 year follow up of a randomised controlled trial

Citation

Barker K, Frost H, Wilson-MacDonald J & Fairbank JCT (2010) Multidisciplinary rehabilitation or surgery for chronic low back pain -7 year follow up of a randomised controlled trial. Affiliate Society Meeting, 01/10/2010 - 01/10/2010. Spine, October 2010 (Supplement), pp. 25-25. http://journals.lww.com/spinejournalabstracts/Fulltext/2010/10001/Multidisciplinary_Rehabilitation_or_Surgery_for.25.aspx

Abstract
Introduction: The MRC sponsored Spine Stabilisation Trial (SST) was a landmark study of 349 patients with chronic low back pain considered candidates for spinal fusion surgery. It suggested that intensive rehabilitation can produce similar results to spinal fusion at 2 years at about half the cost. However there remained a need to ascertain the longer term outcome of patients managed by the rehabilitation and the surgical strategies.

Journal
Spine: Volume October 2010, Issue Supplement