Quality of life improves with minimally invasive surgery for low back pain

Patients who have a low back surgery called minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion, end up better off in many ways than patients who have more invasive surgery to alleviate debilitating pain. Quality of life improvements include smaller incisions, and reduced chronic low back pain, hospital stays, complications and scarring. The minimally invasive surgery can also can lower costs and infection rates compared with more invasive, open procedures.

Read more...