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Neurosurgical Management of Pain

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Patients with low back pain as their chief corn-plaint are responsible for over one-third of all the visits to neurological surgeons in the United States.1 Surgery on the low back is the most common type of operation undertaken by neurosurgeons. Hospitalizations for low back pain are second only to childbirth (National Hospital Discharge Survey, National Center for Health Statistics, unpublished data). Vast amounts of medications, physical therapies, and inactivity are prescribed for Americans with low back pain.2 We do more operations per capita on the low back than any other country in the world.3

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA

    Richard B. North MD

  2. Division of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA

    Robert M. Levy MD, PhD

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Loeser, J.D. (1997). Low Back Pain. In: North, R.B., Levy, R.M. (eds) Neurosurgical Management of Pain. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1938-5_4

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