Extracorporeal shockwave therapy may be effective for intermittent lower limb claudication in peripheral artery disease (PAD) patients unable to engage in supervised exercise or who experienced little ...

Evidence-based recommendations on interspinous distraction procedures for lumbar spinal stenosis causing neurogenic claudication. This involves implanting a device into the space between two back ...

The Lown Institute called out dozens of hospitals for performing unnecessary surgeries on Medicare beneficiaries with low back pain, putting patients at risk of serious complications with no evidence ...

Individuals with lumbar spinal stenosis are generally older and have a long history of intermittent low back pain. Leg pain, which can be unilateral or bilateral, is a more recent complaint. In ...

Lumbar spinal stenosis is most often caused by degenerative disease of the lumbar vertebrae and their associated joints. Neurogenic claudication can then result from compression of spinal nerves by ...