Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
Current as of: June 26, 2019
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:William H. Blahd, Jr., MD, FACEP – Emergency Medicine & Adam Husney, MD – Family Medicine
Failed back surgery syndrome (also called “failed back syndrome”) is a term some doctors use to mean that a person still has pain or other symptoms after they have recovered from back surgery. There is no surgery that works 100 percent of the time, and surgery on the back is no different. Sometimes the pain is not all…