Lumbar stenosis is a common spinal condition that affects millions of people, particularly older adults. It occurs when the spinal canal located in the lower back experiences narrowing, putting ...

Spinal stenosis — also called vertebral stenosis — is a condition in which spaces in your spine become too narrow (the term “stenosis” refers to narrowing of any passage in the body).

Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal which houses the nerves and spinal cord. Stenosis most commonly affects ...

Characterized by back, leg and neck pain, spinal stenosis affects more than 200,000 adults in the United States and an estimated 103 million people worldwide. In patients over age 65, it is the ...

The main reasons for exclusion were: outcomes were not patient reported functional outcome measures (n = 12); non-experimental research design (n = 10); populations with lumbar pathological ...