Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 87, Issue 9 , Pages 1250-1256 , September 2006

Disability in Patients With Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

  • Sang-I. Lin, PhD, PT

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Therapy, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Sang-I Lin, PhD, PT, Dept of Physical Therapy, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 701, Taiwan
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  • Ruey-Mo Lin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopedics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
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  • Lee-Wen Huang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopedics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

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    Disability in patients of different age, comorbidity, and medication groups. None of the within-group differences were significant.

    Disability in patients of different age, comorbidity, and medication groups. None of the within-group differences were significant.

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    Disability in patients in different symptom groups. The only significant within-group difference was found between patients with primary symptoms in the back and those with symptoms in both the back a

    Disability in patients in different symptom groups. The only significant within-group difference was found between patients with primary symptoms in the back and those with symptoms in both the back and leg.

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    Distribution of disability in patients with different symptom locations.

    Distribution of disability in patients with different symptom locations.

 Supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan.No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(06)00473-4

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2006.05.021

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 87, Issue 9 , Pages 1250-1256 , September 2006