Posterior surgery is noninferior to anterior surgery for cervical radiculopathy

For patients with cervical radiculopathy, posterior foraminotomy provides outcomes comparable to those of the more commonly performed anterior cervical discectomy, reports a randomized clinical trial in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. “[O]ur findings provide Level-I evidence that posterior surgery is noninferior to anterior surgery with regard to the clinical outcome, with follow-up of two years,” according to the new research by Nádia F. Simões de Souza, MD, and Anne E. H. Broekema, MD, Ph.D., of University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands, and colleagues. Updated FACET report provides two-year follow-up data Patients with cervical radiculopathy have pain, sensory, and/or Read More