Clinical study of conservative treatment for lumbar disc herniation

Abstract

This study reviwed the results of conservative treatment of lumbar disc herniation.Ninety patients with lumbar disc herniation were included in this study.The avarage age at admission was 41 yeras old and avarage follow up period was 2 years and 7 months. We evaluated JOA score and the findings of MRI at the time of admission.All cases had only radicular symptoms and operations were performed in all patients with cauda equina syndrome. The location of the herniation that evaluated by MRI correlated with JOA score and prognosis, the cases that had the herniation nearby the nerve root had severer symptoms than the cases of central type.There was a correlation between JOA score and prognosis.We thought that the findings of MRI and JOA score at the time of admission were useful to predict the prognosis.