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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2025

Review of Recent Treatment Strategies for Lumbar Disc Herniation (LDH) Focusing on Nonsurgical and Regenerative Therapies.

Jae Sun Lee, Soo-Bin Lee, Kyung-Yil Kang, Seong Ho Oh, Dong-Sik Chae

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. [Lumbar disc herniation].Orthopadie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jae Sun LeeDepartment of Research Support Office of Medical & Sciences Research Institute, International St. Mary's Hospital, Incheon 22711, Republic of Korea.
Soo-Bin LeeDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Catholic Kwandong University, College of Medicine, International St. Mary's Hospital, Incheon 22711, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-4934-5942
Kyung-Yil KangDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Catholic Kwandong University, College of Medicine, International St. Mary's Hospital, Incheon 22711, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-2236-2286
Seong Ho OhDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Catholic Kwandong University, College of Medicine, International St. Mary's Hospital, Incheon 22711, Republic of Korea.
Dong-Sik ChaeDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Catholic Kwandong University, College of Medicine, International St. Mary's Hospital, Incheon 22711, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-7936-088X

Funding

The National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) RS-2023-00239313
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conservative treatment is primarily performed for the treatment of patients with lumbar disc herniation (LDH), but if it does not respond, surgical treatment can be performed. Surgical intervention has a positive effect on the rapid improvement of LDH symptoms. However, the effectiveness of surgical versus conservative treatment for LDH is controversial, especially regarding long-term effects. Recently, a treatment using platelet-rich plasma (PRP), bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC), low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS), etc., has been actively conducted as a treatment to avoid side effects of surgery and promote tissue regeneration. In this paper, the literature evaluating the effectiveness of non-surgical treatment options is reviewed with an emphasis on the effectiveness of clinical application. Several clinical studies have shown that PRP, biomaterials, BMAC, and LIPUS treatment promote tissue regeneration and alleviate symptoms. Although PRP-applied studies have suggested disc height changes, cell therapy and LIPUS treatment have many shortcomings in clinical aspects of tissue regeneration. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a unified, safe protocol and standardize the method of presenting results to confirm the clinical effect of the treatment for impaired intervertebral regeneration in patients with intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD), including LDH.

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biomaterialsBMACintervertebral discs degenerationLIPUSlumbar disc herniationPRP

Identifiers

PMID40004728
PMCPMC11856164

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