Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
University of Arizona College of Medicine
University of Arizona College of Medicine
POGOe Id:
20847
Date Posted:
12/31/1969
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12/31/1969
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Abstract:
Lumbar Spinal Stenosis is one of a continuing series of practical, evidence based, Provider Fact Sheets which summarize key geriatric topics and provide clinically useful assessments and interventions. Initially developed for remote, rural clinical sites, they are useful for students and health care professionals from many fields and across a very broad range of health care settings.
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Objectives:
- Describe the typical clinical presentation of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS)
- Identify limitations of the imaging tests used to diagnose LSS
- Identify the most effective treatments for LSS
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Subscribers to POGOe are free to reprint Elder Care on their own stationery or in other publications without obtaining specific permission, so long as
- content is not changed,
- no one is charged a fee to use or read the publication,
- authors and their affiliated institutions are noted without change, and
- the reprint includes the following statement: “Reprinted courtesy of the Arizona Reynolds Program of Applied Geriatrics and the Arizona Geriatric Education Center."
Elder Care Provider Sheets can also be accessed at http://www.reynolds.med.arizona.edu/EduProducts/ElderCareProviderSheets.cfm.
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Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Lumbar Spinal Stenosis. POGOe - Portal of Geriatrics Online Education; 2010 Available from: https://pogoe.org/productid/20847