Management of lumbar spinal stenosis

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Consensus categories

none

Domain

Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none

Study design

Candidate signal: Other designConsensus signal: none

Genre

Candidate signal: ReviewConsensus signal: Review

Teacher disagreement score

0.942

Threshold uncertainty score

1.000

Validation status

machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

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Teacher spread

0.332 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work

Validation status

score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) affects more than 200,000 adults in the United States, resulting in substantial pain and disability. It is the most common reason for spinal surgery in patients over 65 years. Lumbar spinal stenosis is a clinical syndrome of pain in the buttocks or lower extremities, with or without back pain. It is associated with reduced space available for the neural and vascular elements of the lumbar spine. The condition is often exacerbated by standing, walking, or lumbar extension and relieved by forward flexion, sitting, or recumbency. Clinical care and research into lumbar spinal stenosis is complicated by the heterogeneity of the condition, the lack of standard criteria for diagnosis and inclusion in studies, and high rates of anatomic stenosis on imaging studies in older people who are completely asymptomatic. The options for non-surgical management include drugs, physiotherapy, spinal injections, lifestyle modification, and multidisciplinary rehabilitation. However, few high quality randomized trials have looked at conservative management. A systematic review concluded that there is insufficient evidence to recommend any specific type of non-surgical treatment. Several different surgical procedures are used to treat patients who do not improve with non-operative therapies. Given that rapid deterioration is rare and that symptoms often wax and wane or gradually improve, surgery is almost always elective and considered only if sufficiently bothersome symptoms persist despite trials of less invasive interventions. Outcomes (leg pain and disability) seem to be better for surgery than for non-operative treatment, but the evidence is heterogeneous and often of limited quality.

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The record

Venue

BMJ

Topic

Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology

Field

Medicine

Canadian institutions

Mount Royal University

Funders

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

Keywords

MedicineLumbar spinal stenosisSpinal stenosisNeurogenic claudicationLumbarSurgeryPhysical therapyAsymptomaticRandomized controlled trialLow back painQuality of life (healthcare)ButtocksRehabilitation

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yes

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