RT Book, Section A1 Schofferman, Jerome A2 Bajwa, Zahid H. A2 Wootton, R. Joshua A2 Warfield, Carol A. SR Print(0) ID 1131933618 T1 Failed Back Surgery T2 Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e YR 2016 FD 2016 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071766838 LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131933618 RD 2024/03/28 AB Failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) is a nonspecific term that has probably outlived its usefulness as we learned more about the problem, but the phrase remains embedded in the vernacular of the pain and spine worlds. One useful definition of FBSS is that the outcome of surgery did not meet the expectations of both the patient and the surgeon.1-4 This implies that the patient and surgeon had the same reasonable expectations for the outcome of surgery. It does not and should not mean the patient failed to get total pain relief or return to full function.