Objectifying performance assessments and personalized rehabilitation trajectories to improve return to work in failed back surgery patients. Ghent University
Treatment of Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (FBSS) is very complex. However, the incidence of patients that will develops FBSS after lumbar spinal surgery ranges from 10-40%, depending on the type of surgery. For therapy-refractory FBSS, meaning conservative treatment did not achieve adequate pain relief, Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) may serve as minimally invasive treatment. Despite the favourable results of a meta-analysis that SCS is an ...