Background: Beside symptoms and clinical signs radiological findings are crucial in the diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). We investigate which quantitative radiological signs are ...

In severe cases, surgery may be required. If you are diagnosed with spinal stenosis, you may be referred to physical therapy. A physical therapist can give you exercises to perform that will help ...

Also known as radicular back pain, this condition is typically caused by compression, inflammation, or injury to a spinal nerve root. A herniated disc, spinal stenosis, and degenerative disc ...

What is lumbar spinal stenosis? Lumbar spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal in the lower back (lumbar spine). The spinal canal houses the spinal cord and nerves. The narrowing caused by ...

Lumbar pain is often caused by spinal stenosis. Your spinal canal narrows ... A trained therapist can guide you through exercises to help you regain your strength and range of motion.

The search in Medline and Embase, described as step one, yielded, after excluding duplicates, 170 publications. After reading title and abstract 103 papers were excluded. For the remaining 67 ...

Introduction Central lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a common cause of pain, reduced function and quality of life in older adults. Current management of LSS includes surgery to decompress the spinal ...

helse-bergen.no Objective To assess the safety and tolerability of treadmill exercise testing and the association of revealed symptoms with outcome in apparently asymptomatic patients with moderate to ...

The prognostic value of serial exercise echocardiography (EEC) in asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis is unknown. We sought to evaluate the safety and utility of monitoring patients with asymptomatic ...

Tiredness or ache in the thighs, buttocks or lumbar area may occur as a symptom ... arterial pressures above and below the segment of stenosis were measured by a capacitance manometer.