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Podcast: Low Back Pain Podcast
Episode: Failed Low Back Surgery | Episode 17
Description: Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program:
Failed low back surgeries are common enough that a syndrome is named after it! Failed Low Back Surgery Syndrome is when low back surgery outcomes do not match the expectations of the patient or doctor, or when the surgery ends up producing more pain than prior to the surgery. Failed low back surgeries affect 10%-40% of individuals that receive low back surgery. Lumbar fusion has a 30%-46% failure rate, and microdiscectomy has a 19%-25% failure rate. The issue here is not that surgery is inherently "...