Rehabilitation following surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Mcgregor, Alison H ^a   Probyn, Katrin ^a   Cro, Suzie ^b   Doré, Caroline J ^b   Burton, A Kim ^c   Balagué, Federico ^d   Pincus, Tamar ^e   Fairbank, Jeremy ^f  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f NUFFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; LEG; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; TIME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

HUMANS; LEG; LOW BACK PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SPINAL STENOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84897574508     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009644.pub2     Document Type: Review

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