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Back pain alleviation after TDA (green) and after ALIF (comparator, blue) by different surgeons. The upper reference line represents the average post-operative back pain alleviation of 39 points. The lower reference line represents the 18 VAS points regarded as minimum clinically relevant pain improvement. The thicknesses of box plots vary proportionally to the respective subgroup size. The increased adjusted probabilities are marked in grey
