The Effectiveness of Oral Corticosteroids in the Treatment of Lumbar Stenosis

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2012-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of systemic corticosteroids administered orally in narrow lumbar canal syndrome.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Federal University of São Paulo
• Treatments: Analgesics

Criteria

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 °