Prognosis of outcomes of non-specific lower back pain surgical treatment
The paper dwells on the issues relating to prognosis of outcomes of non-specific lower back pain surgical treatment. Rather frequent relapse of pain syndrome after vertebral surgery prompted looking for factors influencing the effectiveness of surgical treatment of patients with non-specific back pain. Preoperative assessment of patients with back pain is supposed to include not only clinical and instrumental evaluation of vertebral condition reflecting disease manifestation, but revealing as well patients'' psychological features, the presence of anxiety and depression symptoms, catastrophization, non-adaptive coping strategies, which may lead to high risk of unsatisfactory result of back pain patients'' surgical treatment.