In lumbar spinal stenosis patients, calcitonin yielded lower disability scores than gabapentin after three months: 23 ± 12.05 versus 32 ± 16.08 (P ≤ 0.05).
In plain wordsIn lumbar spinal stenosis patients, calcitonin produced a lower disability score than gabapentin after three months.
- Peptide
- Calcitonin-salmon
- Outcome
- DecreaseOswestry Disability Index
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Comparator
- Gabapentin
- Outcome group
- Exercise and physical function · Musculoskeletal
- Studied dose
- 200 IU daily · nasal · 8 weeksAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Oswestry Disability Index, mean
- 23
- calcitonin group, reported ±12.05
- Oswestry Disability Index, mean
- 32
- gabapentin group, reported ±16.08
- p
- ≤ 0.05
- calcitonin vs gabapentin
Source sentences
After three months of study and after four weeks off the prescription, mean values of Oswestry Disability Index in the calcitonin, gabapentin, and control groups were 23 ± 12.05, 32 ± 16.08, and 38 ± 22.09, respectively (P ≤ 0.05, calcitonin group vs. gabapentin group, and P ≤ 0. 001, calcitonin gro…
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
In this clinical trial, 90 patients with symptoms of neurogenic claudication and magnetic resonance imaging-proven LSS were randomly assigned to nasal salmon calcitonin, gabapentin, or placebo treatments for eight weeks (30 participants in each group).