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BONE & JOINT JOURNAL
Volume 99B, Issue 8, Pages 1003-1005Publisher
BRITISH EDITORIAL SOC BONE JOINT SURGERY
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.99B8.BJJ-2017-0199.R1
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has issued guidelines that state fusion for non-specific low back pain should only be performed as part of a randomised controlled trial, and that lumbar disc replacement should not be performed. Thus, spinal fusion and disc replacement will no longer be routine forms of treatment for patients with low back pain. This annotation considers the evidence upon which these guidelines are based.
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