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. Interestingly, in another study with longer follow-up (seven years on average), Fischgrund 37 obtained better functional outcomes in patients with fusion versus those with pseudarthrosis. He concluded, similarly to Guigui et al, 3 that osteosynthesis

, finding that patients in whom fusion was added had greater functional improvement. 38 , 39 Martin et al studied the surgical outcomes in degenerative spondylolisthesis and found that spinal decompression and fusion led to better clinical outcomes than

patients with radiculopathy. It consists of a number of different modalities including immobilization, physical therapy, manipulation, traction, medication, and cervical steroid injection. 5 Good to excellent outcomes were reported in up to 90% of

results and functional outcomes in adult patients after revision surgery for spinal deformity correction: patients younger than 65 years versus 65 years and older . Spine Deform 2013 ; 1 : 371 - 6 . 16 Hassanzadeh H , Jain A

instrumented over uninstrumented fusion with respect to sustained long-term improvement in clinical and functional outcomes, and this needs to be balanced against the non-significant trend towards higher reoperation rates with instrumented fusion (relative risk

. Functional and radiological outcome at 12 month follow-up in a prospective randomized series of 50 patients . Orthop Traumatol Surg Res 2011 ; 97 : 846 - 851 . 36 Martín-López JE , Pavón-Gómez MJ , Romero-Tabares A

Ohzono K Hiroshima K . Patient satisfaction as an outcome measure after surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis: testing the validity and discriminative ability in terms of symptoms and functional status . Spine 2006 ; 31 : 2602 – 2608

number of levels involved and the pathology present. Functional outcomes All the patient series reported one or more functional outcome measures ( Table 2 ). Of these, eight reported scores on one of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA

Kebaish KM Sinkov V Cohen DB Sieber AN Kostuik JP . Functional and radiographic outcome of sacroiliac arthrodesis for the disorders of the sacroiliac joint . Spine J 2005 ; 5 : 520 – 528 . 23. Schütz

rationale and the clinical basis for intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM), interpret the monitoring alerts, and utilize them for a better surgical outcome. 2 In addition to a surgeon, the neuromonitoring team is composed of clinical neurophysiologist