Sacral U-type fractures: do you stabilize early with hardware? Do you let biology do its thing? Or do you quietly check the frailty score and let that make the decision for you?
One group of researchers stepped into this controversy with a 12-year retrospective study from a Level 1 trauma center, asking the question spine surgeons really care about: does surgery actually make patients feel and function better — or are you just rearranging screws?
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