Patients undergoing surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis experience unique courses of pain and disability: A group-based trajectory analysis.

Patients undergoing surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis experience unique courses of pain and disability: A group-based trajectory analysis.

OBJECTIVE:Identify patient subgroups defined by trajectories of pain and disability following surgery for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis, and investigate the construct validity of the subgroups by evaluating for meaningful differences in clinical outcomes. METHODS:We recruited patients with deg...

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Main Authors: Jeffrey J Hebert, Edward Abraham, Niels Wedderkopp, Erin Bigney, Eden Richardson, Mariah Darling, Hamilton Hall, Charles G Fisher, Y Raja Rampersaud, Kenneth C Thomas, Bradley Jacobs, Michael Johnson, Jerome Paquet, Najmedden Attabib, Peter Jarzem, Eugene K Wai, Parham Rasoulinejad, Henry Ahn, Andrew Nataraj, Alexandra Stratton, Neil Manson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224200

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