The Effectiveness of Oral Corticosteroids in the Treatment of Lumbar Stenosis (NCT01456377) | Clinical Trial Compass
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The Effectiveness of Oral Corticosteroids in the Treatment of Lumbar Stenosis
Brazil60 participantsStarted 2011-07
Plain-language summary
The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of systemic corticosteroids administered orally in narrow lumbar canal syndrome.
Who can participate
Age range50 Years – 75 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* Low back pain and at least two of the following complaints in lower limbs: pain, weakness, burning or numbness that worsens with walking and improves with the cessation of walking.
Exclusion Criteria:
* decompensated diabetes mellitus.
* Systemic hypertension and decompensated heart
* systemic disease affecting the lower limbs
* Neuromuscular Disease
* Use of steroids in the past 3 months.
* Patients with previous surgery of the thoracic or lumbar spine.
* cognitive disorder that interferes with the ability to understand or interpret the questionnaires
* Spondylolisthesis except degenerative
* degenerative scoliosis with Cobb angle of 10 °
What they're measuring
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effectiveness of oral corticosteroids in the treatment of spinal stenosis