Clinical Features of Lumbar Canal Stenosis and Conservative Treatment

Clinical features of lumbar canal stenosis were studied in 319 cases of our clinic in the last five years. There were 210 male and 109 female. The age varied from 22 to 88 (60.4 years on an average). Most of the patients were of degenerative type.Subjective symptoms were various, but mainly low back pain (89%), intermittent claudication and leg pain, and dysfunction was found in 29%.As the objective signs, Lasegue's sign and femoral stretching test were positive in 27% and 31% respectively, and sensory deficit in the leg and sensory deficit in more than 50%. Epidural block was effective in 58% of the patients for relief of low back pain and intermittent claudication.