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Originally Posted by Jo*mar
And there are the Pubmed articles/studies that state surgery does help for approximately 80% or so, and improves for 45%, no change for some and worsens for a small %. ( % are my best recollection - the articles are in the useful sticky thread somewhere)..
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what is the difference between "helps" and "improves" ?
i am not advocating for one or the other. i am just playing devil's advocate to both sides to try to figure out things for myself.
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Oh sorry, I can't recall the wording the article used but basically 80% were helped as in "fixed", I can't recall the time frame of the surveys. maybe 6 mo, 12 mo & year or 2 post op??
Ok found the post w/ article -
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/post959769-10.html
related Pubmed article -
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17985565