Sense of coherence and outcome of low-back surgery: 5-year follow-up of 80 patients

Eighty adult patients, 33 men and 47 women, mean age 46 years (SD 11.8, range 19–74 years), were evaluated 5 years after lowback surgery. The mean duration of symptoms before operation was 8.7 (SD 7.1) years. The purpose was to evaluate the 5-year outcome of lowback surgery, to find the best predictors for the outcome, and to find out if a correlation exists between the patient's sense of coherence and the outcome of low-back surgery. The mean...