Surgery on extremities carries a lower risk of severe functional decline compared to spine surgery. — Whalespan
Surgery on extremities carries a lower risk of severe functional decline compared to spine surgery.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“it's rarer the spine it seems to happen more frequently and again you're taking people who are reasonably functional but not happy happily functional and trying to make them better and in the instances where you don't you can make them all hell of a lot worse”