Evaluations of Treatment for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: by Rolland-Morris Disability Questionnaire, VAS, and Modified-JOA score

We evaluated treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis by Rolland-Morris disability questionnaire (RDQ), VAS, and modified JOA score (m-JOA). The subjects were 29 patients (average 68 years), consisting of 20 patients who underwent surgical operation and 9 patients who received conservative therapy. We evaluated RDQ, VAS and m-JOA at 0 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months after treatment. RDQ, VAS, m-JOA were gradually recovered after treatment. Operated cases were more recovered than conservative cases. RDQ was useful for the evaluation of treatment not only for lumbar disc herniation, but also lumbar spina stenosis.