A study recently published in Spine examined the reoperation rate for patients undergoing spine surgery for disc herniation.
Researchers used a national health insurance database to identify patients who underwent first surgery for herniated intervertebral disc disease, and selected 18,590 patients to include in their study. The patients had surgery in 2003 and were followed for five years:
1. 5.4 percent of all patients underwent reoperation after three months.
2. 7.4 percent was the cumulative reoperation rate at one year.
3. 9 percent of all patients had undergone reoperation by the second...
