Traumatic spinal cord injury is one of the important causes of disability.in some of vertebral fractures,spinal canal is deformed and compromised.the relationship between the shape of the cervical canal and spinal cord hnjury has been proved but such a correlation for thoraculombar spine 50 patients with compromised canal(cases) and 50 oatients with intact canal were evaluated in the light of s...

Background. One of the main reasons for low back pain is displacement of the nucleus pulposus within the intervertebral disc and spinal canal. In the diagnosis of low back pain a clinical examination is essential, supplemented by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The main purpose of our research was to demonstrate that the results of a functional diagnosis based on the McKenzie protocol, when c...

INTRODUCTION Advances in digital computed tomography prompted the authors to use this technique to measure correlations between the lumbar spinal canal and the dural sac. The aim of the study was to: 1. Evaluate the value of surgical decompression of neural structures using digital computed tomography. 2. Establish mathematical correlations between the surface area of the dural sac and the narr...

INTRODUCTION By using a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) of the lumbar spine, it is possible to distinguish between spinal stenosis caused by bone compression and specific soft tissue epidural intraspinal lesions that cause localized spinal canal stenosis and neural compression. Examples include facet cysts and yellow ligament hypertrophy. Many of the...

This case study presents the comprehensive post-laminectomy physiotherapy management of Saroj Devi, a 47-year-old female patient diagnosed with cervical canal stenosis. Following laminectomy procedure to alleviate spinal cord and nerve root compression, experienced persistent neck pain, reduced mobility, upper limb weakness, sensory deficits. The aim this was describe assessment findings, goal ...

STUDY DESIGN This is a prospective, multicenter cohort study including 8 medical centers in the metropolitan area of the Canton Zurich, Switzerland. OBJECTIVES To examine whether outcome and quality of life might improve after decompression surgery for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis (DLSS) even in patients older than 80 years and to compare data with a younger patient population from our...

INTRODUCTION Achondroplasia is a genetic disorder of bone growth. Congenital spinal stenosis is a well-known complication of this disease, but, to the best of our knowledge, no cases involving combined stenosis with congenital lumbar spinal stenosis and ossification of the ligamentum flavum in achondroplasia have been reported previously. In this report, we describe a case of a patient with con...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a microendoscopic spinal decompression surgical technique using a novel approach for the treatment of lumbar spinal canal stenosis (LSCS). The following modifications were made to the conventional microendoscopic bilateral decompression via the unilateral approach: the base of the spinous process was first resected partially to secure ...

Background: New minimal invasive procedure is trying to replace the old classic decompressive laminectomy. Result of the decompressive laminectomy should be well documented to compare these new procedures with it. Objective: To evaluate the long term results of wide decompressive laminectomy in treatment of lumbar spinal canal stenosis (LSCS). Patients and Methods: 384 cases having circumferent...

Lumbar spinal canal stenosis (LSS) is diagnosed based on physical examination and radiological documentation of lumbar spinal canal narrowing. Differential diagnosis of the level of lumbar radiculopathy is difficult in multilevel spinal stenosis. Therefore, the authors focused on gait analysis as a classification method to improve diagnostic accuracy. The goal of this study was to identify gait...