Society guideline links: Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis

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Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't perform fusion surgery to treat patients with mechanical axial low back pain from multilevel spine degeneration in the absence of: (a) leg pain with or without neurologic symptoms and/or signs of concordant neurologic compression, and (b) structural pathology such as spondylolisthesis or deformity (updated 2020)

United States

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on back pain – Child (2016)

●North American Spine Society (NASS): Evidence-based clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of adult isthmic spondylolisthesis (2014)

●NASS: Evidence-based clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis, 2nd edition (revised 2014)