Surgical treatment should be considered in patients who have not been treated at younger age or when conservative therapy fails.

In mild cases of sleep apnea, conservative therapy may be all that is needed.

Surgery is the last resort when conservative therapy is unsuccessful.

If conservative therapy is not helpful, surgical repair of joints may be necessary at some time.

L. Rombaut showed that in almost 40% of the cases, conservative therapy has a neutral or even a negative outcome.

For patients with severe symptoms who are not helped enough by conservative therapy, surgery may be needed to relieve pain.

If the conservative therapy doesn't work, then surgery can be an option.

In case of poor response to conservative therapy, a colectomy is usually required.

Frustrated after months of failed conservative therapies, Dan opted to go under the knife to find relief.

Most patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome respond well to conservative therapy.