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Letter to the Editor: Evaluating the Reproducibility of the Walking Test for Intermittent Claudication Associated with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis.

Satoshi Takashima1, Tadatsugu Morimoto1, Hirohito Hirata1, Masaaki Mawatari1.   

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Year:  2022        PMID: 36058560      PMCID: PMC9441435          DOI: 10.31616/asj.2022.0290.r1

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Asian Spine J        ISSN: 1976-1902


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Dear Editor, We read the article “Evaluating the reproducibility of the walking test for intermittent claudication associated with lumbar spinal stenosis” by Tanishima et al. [1]. We were impressed by their evaluation of the reproducibility of the gait test for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) patients. However, we have some questions and suggestions about the following four points to agree with the authors’ conclusions completely. First, was there any difference in reproducibility by the kind of LSS symptoms (root pain, cauda equina symptoms, and mixed symptoms)? For instance, it is well known that root pain may spontaneously improve over time, and therefore, it may be challenging to assess for reproducibility at baseline and week 4 [2]. Second, although the reproducibility of gait posture is also an interesting topic, how about using simple markerless motion analysis to evaluate the reproducibility of the gait posture (e.g., OpenPose) [3]? Third, this article mentioned that those who wished to continue medication and other treatments could continue without changing their capacity, but what was the percentage of such patients? If the percentage was high, is it possible that the overall change was not due to that? Finally, were there any changes in neurological symptoms such as sensory, motor, or reflex symptoms after the gait test? Despite the above questions, we still believe the reproducibility of the gait test suggests its usefulness in determining the effectiveness of LSS treatment.
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1.  Comparison between walking test and treadmill test for intermittent claudication associated with lumbar spinal canal stenosis.

Authors:  Shinji Tanishima; Satoru Fukada; Hiroyuki Ishii; Toshiyuki Dokai; Yasuo Morio; Hideki Nagashima
Journal:  Eur Spine J       Date:  2014-08-14       Impact factor: 3.134

2.  Evaluation of 3D Markerless Motion Capture Accuracy Using OpenPose With Multiple Video Cameras.

Authors:  Nobuyasu Nakano; Tetsuro Sakura; Kazuhiro Ueda; Leon Omura; Arata Kimura; Yoichi Iino; Senshi Fukashiro; Shinsuke Yoshioka
Journal:  Front Sports Act Living       Date:  2020-05-27

3.  Evaluating the Reproducibility of the Walking Test for Intermittent Claudication Associated with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis.

Authors:  Shinji Tanishima; Li Weishi; Hu Jianzhong; Zhao Jie; Yang Huilin; Hideki Nagashima
Journal:  Asian Spine J       Date:  2021-05-10
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