Correlation between the outcome after surgery for lumbar disc herniation and the duration of the leg symptoms

الملخص EN

To investigate the correlation between the outcome after surgery for lumbar disc herniation and the duration of the leg symptoms .

Twenty-four patients were selected for lumbar disc surgery from april 2002 to march 2005 .

There were(20) male and (4) female patients , the average age was (31) years ,range 20-42 years .

Results showed that out of twenty-four patients who had lumbar disc surgery only (12) patients (50% ) had excellent results ,(7) patients (29.16 %) had good results , (5) patients had fair results (20.83%) .

Those patients were consider an excellent and good results , they had the shortest duration of the symptoms pre- operatively (2-10 months),while those with the longest duration of symptoms pre-operatively (13-20 months) they have the fair results.

The duration of the leg symptoms can be consider as apredictor of outcome after surgery for lumbar disc herniation .