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Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

Failed back surgery syndrome is the diagnosis given to people who continue to have pain after back or neck surgery.

 

It is not really a syndrome, but a tentative acknowledgement that surgery failed to relieve the person’s symptoms. It is notorious for being difficult to treat—largely because it’s treated as a syndrome rather than its individual symptoms or underlying cause. The causes of FBS are numerous, and successful treatment requires more than a broad label and a rush to judgment.

 

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