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Sciatica study provides inconclusive data on treatment options.
Byline: Ronald Kotulak
CHICAGO _ A major study intended to determine if sciatica, a burning sensation in the leg caused by a slipped disk, can best be treated by surgery or nonsurgical medical treatment has found that patients receiving either procedure do very well after two years with a slight advantage for surgical patients.
The study, supported by the National Institutes of Health, was intended to help settle the long-standing controversy over the effectiveness of spinal surgery to repair a slipped disk compared to conservative therapy that includes special exercises and anti-inflammatory drugs.
But the results, reported in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, were somewhat inconclusive primarily because attempts to randomly assign patients into two distinct groups broke down. Forty percent of…
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