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Visually assessed severity of lumbar spinal canal stenosis is paradoxically associated with leg pain and objective walking ability

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, October 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (89th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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Title
Visually assessed severity of lumbar spinal canal stenosis is paradoxically associated with leg pain and objective walking ability
Published in
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, October 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2474-15-348
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Authors

Pekka Kuittinen, Petri Sipola, Tapani Saari, Timo Juhani Aalto, Sanna Sinikallio, Sakari Savolainen, Heikki Kröger, Veli Turunen, Ville Leinonen, Olavi Airaksinen

Abstract

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is the common term used to describe patients with symptoms related to the anatomical reduction of the lumbar spinal canal size. However, some subjects may have a markedly narrowed canal without any symptoms. This raises the question of what is the actual role of central canal stenosis in symptomatic patients. The purpose of this study was to compare radiological evaluations of LSS, both visually and quantitatively, with the clinical findings of patients with LSS.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 113 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 15%
Other 15 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 10%
Researcher 11 9%
Student > Postgraduate 9 8%
Other 29 25%
Unknown 24 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 60 51%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 9%
Psychology 4 3%
Social Sciences 3 3%
Neuroscience 2 2%
Other 9 8%
Unknown 28 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 May 2020.
All research outputs
#2,432,683
of 24,593,959 outputs
Outputs from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#472
of 4,299 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,134
of 260,977 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#4
of 92 outputs
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