Table 1 McNab Score, for postoperative functional outcome
Result | Criteria |
|---|---|
McNab score | |
Excellent | Neither pain nor restriction of mobility |
Good | Lumbar or lower limb pain of sufficient severity to interfere with the patient’s ability to do normal work |
Fair | Improved functional capacity but handicapped by intermittent pain of sufficient severity to interfere with work or leisure activities |
Poor | No improvement or insufficient improvement to enable increase in activities carried out prior to surgery |