Influence of age on pain intensity, functional impairment and health-related quality of life before and after surgery for lumbar degenerative disc disease

• Published in: Clinical neurology and neurosurgery Vol. 150; pp. 33 - 39
• Main Authors: Gautschi, Oliver P., MD, Smoll, Nicolas R, Joswig, Holger, Corniola, Marco V, Schaller, Karl, Hildebrandt, Gerhard, Stienen, Martin N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.11.2016; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age; Age Factors; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Back pain; Back Pain - physiopathology; Back Pain - surgery; Body mass index; Comorbidity; Decompression, Surgical; Degenerative disc disease; Diskectomy; Female; Functional impairment; Health-related quality of life; Hospitals; Humans; Hypotheses; Intervertebral Disc Degeneration - physiopathology; Intervertebral Disc Degeneration - surgery; Lumbar Vertebrae - surgery; Male; Medical personnel; Middle Aged; Neurology; Neurosurgery; Objective functional impairment; Older people; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Pain perception; Patients; Population; Prospective Studies; Quality of Life; Surgery; Timed Up and Go test; Young Adult; degenerative disc disease; timed up and go test; pain perception; functional impairment; objective functional impairment; health-related quality of life; age; Health-related quality of life; Pain perception; Timed Up and Go test; Functional impairment; Degenerative disc disease; Objective functional impairment; Age
• ISSN: 0303-8467; 1872-6968
• DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2016.08.024

Highlights • Demographic changes will lead to a higher prevalence of patients with degenerative disc disease. • Elderly patients scheduled for surgical fusion showed less pain, functional impairment and higher HRQoL. • In patients scheduled for microdiscectomy and decompression, age has little or no effect on these grading scales.