[Clinico-neurologic long-term results following surgery of intervertebral disk displacement]

Abstract

Of the 1732 patients undergoing disk surgery in the period 1971-1980, a sample of 245 was selected, and data gathered prior to their operations compared with data gathered two to twelve years after the operation. Analyses was made of the specific character of pain, the state of the reflexes, motor and sensory failure, Lasègue's sign, finger-ground-distance Disorders of bladder and Rectum, and the patients' subjective judgement of their complaints. The possibility of improvement in the various findings is discussed.