Degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis: Options for aging backs

Physician and Sportsmedicine

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 25-34

  Chen, Andrew L ^a   Spivak, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CALCITONIN; CORTICOSTEROID; GABAPENTIN; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORSET; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TRAINING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0141920705     PISSN: 00913847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/psm.2003.08.454     Document Type: Review

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