Supervised physical therapy versus unsupervised exercise for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis : 1-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial

OBJECTIVE: To compare the 1-year outcomes of patients with lumbar spinal stenosis treated with supervised physical therapy or unsupervised exercise.

DESIGN: A single-center randomized controlled trial with concealed allocation, blinded assessor and intention-to-treat analysis.

SETTING: Spine care center.

SUBJECTS: A total of 86 patients presenting with symptoms of neurogenic claudication caused by lumbar spinal stenosis.

INTERVENTIONS: The physical therapy group received supervised physical therapy sessions twice a week for 6 weeks and home exercise program. The home exercise group received 6-week home exercise program only.

MAIN MEASURES: The primary outcome was symptom severity on the Zurich claudication questionnaire at 1 year. Secondary outcomes included physical function, pain, health-related quality of life and the surgery rate after 1 year.

RESULTS: At 1 year, more patients in the physical therapy group than in the home exercise group achieved minimum clinically important differences in Zurich claudication questionnaire symptom severity (60.5% vs 32.6%; adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 4.3, [95% CI [1.5-12.3], P = 0.01); Zurich claudication questionnaire physical function (55.8% vs 32.6%; AOR 3.0 [1.1-8.1], P = 0.03); SF-36 bodily pain (48.8% vs 25.6%; AOR 2.8 [1.1-7.3], P = 0.03), and SF-36 general health (20.9% vs 7.0%; AOR 6.1 [1.1-33.0], P = 0.04). The surgery rate at 1 year was lower in the physical therapy than in the home exercise group (7.0% vs 23.3%; AOR 0.2 [0.04-0.9] P = 0.04).

CONCLUSIONS: Supervised physical therapy produced greater improvements in symptom severity and physical function than unsupervised exercise and was associated with lower likelihood of receiving surgery within 1 year.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:35

Enthalten in:

Clinical rehabilitation - 35(2021), 7 vom: 19. Juli, Seite 964-975

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Minetama, Masakazu [VerfasserIn]
Kawakami, Mamoru [VerfasserIn]
Teraguchi, Masatoshi [VerfasserIn]
Kagotani, Ryohei [VerfasserIn]
Mera, Yoshimasa [VerfasserIn]
Sumiya, Tadashi [VerfasserIn]
Nakagawa, Masafumi [VerfasserIn]
Yamamoto, Yoshio [VerfasserIn]
Matsuo, Sachika [VerfasserIn]
Sakon, Nana [VerfasserIn]
Nakatani, Tomohiro [VerfasserIn]
Kitano, Tomoko [VerfasserIn]
Nakagawa, Yukihiro [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Exercise
Intermittent claudication
Journal Article
Lumbar spinal stenosis
Physical Therapy
Randomized Controlled Trial
Surgery rate

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Date Completed 21.07.2021

Date Revised 23.04.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/0269215520986688

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM319870669