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

摘要

Background: Demographic changes will lead to an increase of elderly people in our population and consecutively to a higher prevalence of patients suffering from degenerative disc disease (DDD). The goal of this study was to investigate age-related differences in pain intensity, subjective and objective functional impairment and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with lumbar DDD.