Nonoperative treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis with neurogenic claudication

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Ammendolia, Carlo ^a   Stuber, Kent J ^b   Rok, Elisabeth ^c   Rampersaud, Raja ^d   Kennedy, Carol A ^e   Pennick, Victoria ^f   Steenstra, Ivan A ^e   de Bruin, Linda K ^g   Furlan, Andrea D ^e  

^a Rebecca MacDonald Centre for Arthritis and Autoimmune Disease   (Canada)

^b Division of Graduate Eduation and Research   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e Institute of Work and Health   (Canada)

^f The Cochrane Collaboration   (United Kingdom)

^g Workplace studies ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; ETODOLAC; GABAPENTIN; MECOBALAMIN; PARACETAMOL; PROSTAGLANDIN; STEROID;

CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HOME PHYSIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; LEG EXERCISE; LEG PAIN; LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS; NEUROGENIC CLAUDICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; WALKING SPEED; AGED; COMPLICATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; INNERVATION; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; KINESIOTHERAPY; LEG; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; PROCEDURES; SPINAL STENOSIS; VASCULARIZATION; METHODOLOGY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

AGED; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; CALCITONIN; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LEG; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; PROSTAGLANDINS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 84893406923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010712     Document Type: Review

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