Ajiboye, Lukman Olalekan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2068-4484
Alimi, Mustapha
Gbadegesin, Suleiman Ayoola
Oboirien, Muhammad
Article History
Received: 5 July 2018
Accepted: 29 October 2018
First Online: 28 November 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Approval to conduct the study from the Ethical Committee of NOHI was obtained before the study.
: Informed consent was obtained from all the participants in this study.
: All the authors fully participated in all the stages of the study and manuscript writing.
: We recommend that all patients with symptomatic LDDD should have pre- and post-treatment functional and quality of life assessments.
: It is a uni-centred study done in referral orthopaedic hospital where a fraction of the people in the community presents to. A multi-centred study or community-based study with a larger sample size will be more statistically significant for the conclusion. A longer follow-up period of the patients after treatment will show long-term effects of the treatment types.