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Unfortunately, there is no absolute or sure way to get an answer to your question unless you actually have the back surgery to learn if you do or do not get Back pain relief from the surgery.
Many people do get considerable relief from back pain after undergoing back surgery, but many people do not. Of course, the majority of back surgeons who propose surgery to a patient in considerable pain will advise the patient to have surgery, but there is no way to know ahead of time if any back surgery will actually be successful to reduce or eliminate pain, or if the back surgery might even make the back pain worse. These unfortunate things do happen.
Since the year 2000 there has been a trend toward doing less and less back surgery because of the poor outcomes and results in regard to not eliminating any pain and often making the pain worse and back more vulnerable to additional stress because of the removal of normal healthy tissue during surgery. As a result most spinal surgeons are far more conservative and less eager to perform back surgery.
Good advice for the average low back pain sufferer is to invest at least six months of intense conservative treatment consisting of weight loss, spinal exercises to increase range of motion and strengthen low back muscle tone, use of acupuncture and/or spinal manipulation. or Alexander technique or related soft tissue to improve the condition of the low back before considering submitting to surgery.
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