The Effectiveness of Oral Corticosteroids in the Treatment of Lumbar Stenosis
The Effectiveness of Oral Corticosteroids in the Treatment of Lumbar Stenosis
The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of systemic corticosteroids
 administered orally in narrow lumbar canal syndrome.
60 patients are being randomized, plank by randomization, the patient and the examiner will
 be blinded. Will be placed in opaque brown envelopes in order to maintain the secrecy of
 allocation.

 Included patients aged between 50 and 75 years of both sexes participate in the work to
 accept and sign the Informed Consent The patient will be screened in advance after the
 acceptance of it will be an anthropometric assessment, with assessment of height, weight and
 presence of associated comorbidities.

 After clinical evaluation they headed for the initial evaluation, after this evaluation,
 patients are randomized and and delivered to the patient the medication with corticosteroids
 or placebo for an unrelated medical research. It is also given a bottle of paracetamol 750 mg
 and a sheet dated, in which the patient is instructed to register the day this sheet and
 number of capsules taken, which is also an evaluation factor.

 evaluation VAS SF 36 Roland Morris questionnaire Test 6-minute walk Likert scale ELegibility
 Criteria

 Clinical diagnosis:

 Low back pain and at least two of the following complaints in lower limbs: pain, weakness,
 burning or numbness that worsens with walking and improves with the cessation of walking.

 Radiological diagnosis:

 Presence of lumbar canal stenosis with an area less than 100mm2 Hamanishi based on criteria
 measured at lumbar spine MRI in the follow-up from L1 to S1.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Low back pain and at least two of the following complaints in lower limbs: pain,
 weakness, burning or numbness that worsens with walking and improves with the
 cessation of walking.

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  decompensated diabetes mellitus.

 -  Systemic hypertension and decompensated heart

 -  systemic disease affecting the lower limbs

 -  Neuromuscular Disease

 -  Use of steroids in the past 3 months.

 -  Patients with previous surgery of the thoracic or lumbar spine.

 -  cognitive disorder that interferes with the ability to understand or interpret the
 questionnaires

 -  Spondylolisthesis except degenerative

 -  degenerative scoliosis with Cobb angle of 10 °