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01-11-2017 | Cochrane in CORR
Cochrane in CORR
®: Surgical Versus Non-surgical Treatment for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Authors:
Ilyas S. Aleem, MD, MS, FRCSC, Brian Drew, MD, FRCSC
Published in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Issue 11/2017
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Excerpt
Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), an age-related degenerative narrowing of the spinal canal, results in considerable morbidity particularly in older patients. Patients typically present with low-back pain and activity-related leg pain that restricts their function and quality of life [
3]. The socioeconomic burden of treating this pathology is tremendous [
4], highlighting the need to improve effective treatment strategies in the management of this growing demographic. …