SPORT Trial - Spinal Stenosis Without Spondylolisthesis

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The SPORT study investigated the effectiveness of surgical decompression for spinal stenosis compared with conservative treatment.
The study showed that patients who underwent surgery for spinal stenosis without degenerative spondylolisthesis demonstrated significantly greater improvement in pain, satisfaction, function, and self-assessment of progress compared with patients who were treated conservatively1.

SPORT Stenosis Trial Results
Illustration of the SPORT study results for lumbar stenosis. Figure adapted from Weinstein et al. 2008.

Authors' Conclusion

In the combined as-treated analysis, patients who underwent surgery showed significantly more improvement in all primary outcomes than did patients who were treated nonsurgically2.

References

    1. Weinstein, James N., et al. "Surgical versus nonsurgical therapy for lumbar spinal stenosis." New England Journal of Medicine 358.8 (2008): 794-810. ↩ ↩ ↩ ↩

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