Spinal stenosis
Dynamic balance in patients with degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis; a cross sectional study
... Background: Degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a prevalent condition in adults over the age of 55 years. The condition is associated with activity limitations that are related to increased pain ...
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Paraspinal muscles density: a marker for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis?
... and spinal stenosis ...clinical stenosis (n = 15) compared with the asymptomatic ...lumbar spinal stenosis manifest evidence for paraspinal denerv- ation [44–46], mainly at the L5 level ...
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Congenital lumbar spinal stenosis with ossification of the ligamentum flavum in achondroplasia: a case report
... Congenital spinal stenosis is a well- known complication of this disease ...of stenosis is usually due to degenerative changes of the spine, such as disc herniation, degenerative spondylosis and ...
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Original Article Posterolateral decompression combined with interbody fusion and internal fixation for thoracic spinal stenosis
... Thoracic spinal stenosis is thoracic spinal cord compression syndrome as a result of a reduc- tion in the cross-sectional area of thoracic ver- tebral canal ...thoracic spinal steno- sis is ...
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Accuracy and reproducibility of a retrospective outcome assessment for lumbar spinal stenosis surgery
... lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) patients was evaluated retrospectively from patient files of a 3-month outpatient visit performed according to a standard clinical protocol by two independent ...
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Rehabilitation following surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis: a Cochrane review
... lumbar spinal stenosis has an impact on functional ...of spinal stenosis was consistent between studies, local variations in surgical procedures may have ...
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A comparative study of three conservative treatments in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis: lumbar spinal stenosis with acupuncture and physical therapy study (LAP study)
... Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is usually associated with neurological symptoms and intermittent claudication in the lower extremities due to narrowing of the intervertebral foramen and spinal canal ...
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Original Article Risk of same-level recurrent stenosis requiring surgery after laminectomy for lumbar spinal stenosis
... Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a lumbar de- generative disease that is a major cause of lumbar-related discomfort and radicular ...recurrent stenosis, spinal instability, adja- cent segment ...
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<p>Percutaneous Transforaminal Endoscopic Decompression for Geriatric Patients with Central Spinal Stenosis and Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis: A Novel Surgical Technique and Clinical Outcomes</p>
... Purpose: Percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic decompression (PTED) is an ultra-mini- mally invasive surgical option for patients that does not involve the same amount of destabilizing facet joint removal as a ...
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Neuropathic Pain Components in Patients with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
... drug classes might also be helpful in patients with LSS, es- pecially in cases of severe radiculopathy, since a NP compo- nent seems to play an important role in leg pain and the se- verity of pain. In some randomized ...
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Persistent cauda equina syndrome after caudal epidural injection under severe spinal stenosis: a case report
... A physical examination in the emergency room revealed decreased sensations below both L5 dermatome with bilateral knee-flexor motor-power Medical Research Council (MRC) grade 3, hip extensors 1, ankle dorsiflexors 0, ...
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Superior articular process cross-sectional area is a new sensitive parameter for the diagnosis of lumbar central canal spinal stenosis
... 2. Bin Y, de Cheng W, Wei WZ, Hui L. Muscle gap approach under a mini- mally invasive channel technique for treating long segmental lumbar spinal stenosis: A retrospective study. Medicine. ...
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Lumbar spinal stenosis attributable to tophaceous gout: case report and review of the literature
... the spinal canal at the level of L3/4 with a gas-like low-density nodule in the ...the spinal canal (Figure 3B). Spinal stenosis was found at the L3/4 ...
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Wavelet appearance pyramids for landmark detection and pathology classification : application to lumbar spinal stenosis
... We apply the WAP to the problem of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) and present an approach for fitting the landmarks and grading the central and fore- menal stenosis [7, 8]. The Supervised Descent ...
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In the quest for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis etiology: the Schmorl’s nodes model
... and stenosis) by lumbar disc level, for each gender ...lumbar spinal stenosis, we used a multivariable logistic regression analysis after adjusting for all demographics, life-style and health data ...
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AN INTEGRATED EXERCISE APPROACH FOR SECONDARY LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS- A CASE REPORT
... [1] Weinstein, J.N., Tosteson, T.D., Lurie, J.D., Tosteson, A.N.A., Blood, E., Hanscom, B., Herkowitz, H., Cam- misa, F., Albert, T., Boden, S.D., Hilibrand, A., Gold- berg, H., Berven, S. and An, H. Surgical versus non- ...
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Comparison of the Predictive Value of Myelography, Computed Tomography and MRI on the Treadmill Test in Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
... For this prospective study, all consecutive patients with central lumbar spinal stenosis un- dergoing surgical decompression of the lumbar spine during 2001-2002 were recruited. The exercise treadmill test, ...
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Patient demographics and MRI based measurements predict redundant nerve roots in lumbar spinal stenosis: a retrospective database cohort comparison
... There is no consensus regarding the specific diagnostic criteria for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) based on mag- netic resonance imaging (MRI) [16]. A qualitative grading system based on the ...
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Surgical outcomes for lumbar spinal canal stenosis with coexisting cervical stenosis (tandem spinal stenosis): a retrospective analysis of 565 cases
... Most previous studies have used MRI to evaluate spinal stenosis in the cervical and lumbar spine. However, CTM offers great advantages for visualizing bony compressive lesions. In this study, we used CTM to ...
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LumbSten: The lumbar spinal stenosis outcome study
... with spinal stenosis. In the aforementioned study, patients with spinal stenosis were randomly allocated to either surgery or conservative ...
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