TOTBİD Dergisi

TOTBİD Dergisi

2015, Cilt 14, Sayı, 4     (Sayfalar: 309-318)

Most important reason of low-back pain in elderly: spinal stenosis

Serkan Bilgiç 1, Ömer Erşen 2

1 GATA Haydarpaşa Eğitim Araştırma Hastanesi Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul
2 Mareşal Çakmak Asker Hastanesi, Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji Ortopedi Kliniği, Erzurum

DOI: 10.14292/totbid.dergisi.2015.49
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Spinal stenosis is an anatomical diagnosis which can be seen in asymptomatic individuals and its insidence increases with age. Besides, most of the spinal surgeries over 65 age are performed due to spinal stenosis. Degeneration of the disc begins with increasing age; the water content of the disc drops, and the desiccated disc has a decreased ability to handle mechanical loads. Women are affected more often, and mostly at the L4-L5 level. Patients with lumbar spinal stenosis most commonly present with leg pain. This leg pain presents as either neurogenic claudication or radicular leg pain. Patients with neurogenic claudication may report a feeling of pain, heaviness, numbness, cramping, burning, or weakness. Treatment methods are conservative, injections and surgical.

Anahtar Kelimeler : spinal stenosis; low back pain; treatment