2017 Volume 19 Issue 2 Pages 107-111
The purpose of this study was to analyze the post-lumbar laminectomy clinical pathway in patients with degenerative lumbar diseases on the basis of healthrelated quality of life. A total of 90 patients who had received lumbar laminectomies for degenerative lumbar diseases (including canal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis) at our hospital between 2003 and 2013 (61 men and 29 women, ages 40-79) participated in this study. We analyzed factors projected to correlate to physical component summary (PCS), mental component summary (MCS) and role/social component summary (RCS) in SF-36 one year post-operation with multifactorial analysis, which included age, gender, hospital stay length, SLR test, presence or absence of pain, neurological symptoms, sensory disorders and therapeutic exercise after leaving our hospital. Gender and age correlated with PCS. The presence or absence of therapeutic exercise after leaving our hospital correlated with MCS. The presence or absence of pain when leaving our hospital and age correlated with RCS.These results suggest that the post-lumbar laminectomy clinical pathway may need to take these factors into account.
