Evaluation of Love's Method for the Lumbar Disc Herniation

Abstract

Thirty-one patients with lumbar disc herniatiorn were treated by the Love's method at our hospital from November 1976 to February, 1965. Twenty-six of thirty-one patients were reviewed. We evaluated these cases by the assesment of treatment of low back pain proposed by the Japanease Orthopaedic Association Committee. The mean age of the patients was 30. 5 years and the mean duration of follow-up was 2 years and 6 months.