Context Degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis is a common cause of low back and leg pain in older individuals. The evidence supporting non-surgical treatments, including oral medications, physical treatments and spinal injections, is limited. Despite the lack of strong evidence supporting the use of epidural steroid injections (ESIs) for lumbar spinal stenosis, their use has increased dramaticall...

abstract p u rpose: this study aimed to correlation between the grading stenosis and the start back screening tool (sbst) in patients diagnosed with lumbar central canal stenosis (lccs). methods: in a prospective clinical study, a total of 269 patients with lccs were asked to respond to the questionnaire at their first visits. grading of lccs on mri was determined and also the severities of the...

Biomechanical assessment of minimally invasive posterior decompression for lumbar spinal canal stenosis -A cadaver studyTakahiko Hamasaki1,2,3, Nobuhiro Tanaka3, Motohiro Okada1,2, Jin Hwan Kim1,2, Mitsuo Ochi3, William C. Hutton1,2 1Emory Spine Center, Atlanta, GA; 2Orthopaedic surgery, VA medical center, Atlanta, GA; 3Orthopaedic surgery, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan [email protected]...

Analysis of The Histopathological Changes of Epidural Space and Endoneural Structure in Lumbar Spinal Canal Stenosis: a Model For Chronic Compression of The Rat Cauda Equina Nail ÖZDEMİR, Ümit Dursun ACAR, M. Şerefettin CANDA Tepecik Research and Training Hospital , Neurosurgery, İzmir, Türkiye University of Dokuz Eylül School of Medicine, Neurosurgery, İzmir, Türkiye University of Mustafa Kema...

BACKGROUND Spinal canal stenosis is one of the most common causes of low back pain and disability. Its management varies from surgical to conservative, and the indications for ideal management are not clearly defined. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of adding calcitonin to local anesthetic and corticosteroid in epidural injection for patients suffering from degenera...

BACKGROUND The relationship between objective measurements and subjective symptoms of patients with spinal stenosis and the degree of narrowing of the spinal canal is not clear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate patients undergoing surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis and intermittent neurogenic claudication with functional testing, quantitative imaging, and patient self-assessment. MET...

OBJECTIVE Dural sac cross-sectional area (DSCSA) is a way to measure the degree of central spinal canal compression. The objective was to investigate the correlation between the expansion ratio of DSCSA after unilateral laminotomy for bilateral decompression (ULBD) and the clinical results for lumbar spinal stenosis. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the clinical data and radiographs of 103...

BACKGROUND Concurrent cervical and lumbar spinal canal stenosis is known as tandem spinal stenosis (TSS). As research on TSS is limited, there is no consensus on the optimal surgical approach to this problem. We evaluated the prevalence and clinical characteristics of TSS in patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal canal stenosis (LCS). METHODS The authors performed a retrospective analysis of...

STUDY DESIGN This is a prospective, multicenter cohort study including 8 medical centers in the metropolitan area of the Canton Zurich, Switzerland. OBJECTIVES To examine whether outcome and quality of life might improve after decompression surgery for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis (DLSS) even in patients older than 80 years and to compare data with a younger patient population from our...