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Giovanni Ferreira

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NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow @msk_health @SydneyMSK
Sydney, New South Wales sydney.edu.au/medicine-healt… Joined July 2016
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Published today in @bmj_latest

Lumbar discectomy was superior to non-surgical treatment or epidural steroid injections in reducing leg pain and disability in people with sciatica in the short-term, but benefits reduced over time

bmj.com/content/381/bm…
www.bmj.com Surgical versus non-surgical treatment for sciatica: systematic review and meta-analysis of... Objective To investigate the effectiveness and safety of surgery compared with non-surgical treatment for sciatica. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources Medline, Embase, CINAHL,...
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Giovanni Ferreira @giovanni_ef
Great to see our study evaluating the smallest worthwhile effect of surgery versus non-surgical treatment for sciatica featured in @JPhysiother special collection!

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40122755/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov The smallest worthwhile effect of surgery versus non-surgical treatments for sciatica: a benefit-... People with sciatica would require discectomy to provide an additional 15% reduction in their leg pain beyond the expected 50% improvement in leg pain from non-surgical treatments in the short term...
Journal of Physiotherapy @JPhysiother Aug 29, 2025
📚A collection of high-quality research articles on 'physiotherapy for surgical patients. A free open-access collection of 14 full-text articles📚
doi.org/10.1016/j.jphy…
#LowBackPain @CharlesSturtUni @Editor_JoP
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Giovanni Ferreira @giovanni_ef
You would think that the evidence base for back pain is pretty straightforward, and guidelines would mostly agree on what should and shouldn't be done. That's certainly not the case! Great work @BaydenMcK

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40639620/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Agreement between high-quality clinical practice guidelines in their treatment recommendations for... More research is needed to understand reasons for these disagreements as well as the variation across clinical practice guidelines in electing to make a recommendation.
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