Lead Sponsor

Hospital for Special Surgery, New York

Age

40 - No limit years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

•Lumbar spinal stenosis with neurogenic claudication
•Symptoms present for at least 3 months
•Moderate to severe acquired or congenital LSS based on radiological evaluation
•Lumbar MRI obtained within the past 12 months prior to initial physical therapy visit
•40 years of age or older
•Body mass index less than or equal to 35
•Can tolerate a 6-min treadmill test
•Willing to comply with home exercises as prescribed

•Acute disc herniation
•Grade 3 or greater spondylolisthesis
•Rheumatoid or autoimmune conditions (e.g., ankylosing spondylitis)
•Active spinal compression fractures
•Knee surgery in the previous 6 months (e.g., total knee arthroplasty)
•Previous spinal fusion
•Absence of pedal pulses
•Inflammation/infectious process
•Myelopathy
•Psychiatric disorder preventing informed consent or participation in assigned physical therapy sessions
•Patients with pending litigation or workers compensation