Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics at the first medical examination
From: Classifying patients with lumbar spinal stenosis using painDETECT: a cross-sectional study
Characteristic | Nociceptive pain | Type of pain unclear (mixed pain) | Neuropathic pain | p a |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Age (years) | 71.4 ± 1.36 | 69.0 ± 2.34 | 68.3 ± 2.91 | 0.720 |
Sex | 0.572 | |||
Male | 18 | 11 | 8 | |
Female | 41 | 14 | 10 | |
Duration of pain | 0.914 | |||
≧3 months | 41 | 17 | 14 | |
<3 months | 18 | 8 | 4 | |
Affected spinal level | 0.730 | |||
L3–L4 | 18 | 9 | 3 | |
L4–L5 | 36 | 16 | 15 | |
L5–S1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
NIC type | 0.668 | |||
Radicular | 41 | 15 | 14 | |
Caudal | 5 | 4 | 0 | |
Mixed | 13 | 6 | 4 | |
Spinal stenosis levels involvedb | 0.373 | |||
1 | 28 | 8 | 6 | |
2 | 25 | 11 | 8 | |
≥3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | |
Cause of LSS | 0.672 | |||
Lumbar spondylitis | 30 | 15 | 11 | |
Degenerative spondylolisthesis | 20 | 8 | 6 | |
Degenerative scoliosis | 9 | 2 | 1 |