I Have a Sciatica Syndrome, Should I Get Surgery?

Should patients start to consider options like a dyscectomy or laminectomy when patients have persistent, ridiculous symptoms? There was a paper that was published this past month by Williams in January of 2023 titled, Variability in Recovery Following Microdyspectomy and Post-operative PT for Lumbar Ridiculopathy. If it is couched in, this will never get better without surgery. Not only is that wrong, but it will also lead people down a particular path, right? So I think that's one thing that could be relevant to decision-making.

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