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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 95-B, Issue SUPP_4 | Pages 19 - 19
1 Jan 2013
Gaastra B Scoffings D Guilfoyle M Scholz J Laing R Mannion R
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Study Purpose

To examine the presence of radicular pain and its relationship to the degree of lumbar nerve root compression in patients with a degenerative lumbar spine condition about to undergo surgery for either lumbar disc prolapse or lumbar canal stenosis.

Background

The pathophysiology underlying radicular pain is not completely understood but it is thought that nerve root compression is a key factor and from a surgical perspective, decompressing the nerve root is considered to be the key therapeutic step. However, despite often severe root compression in patients with lumbar stenosis, radicular pain is not a typical feature.