What's New in Lumbar Stenosis
Lumbar spinal stenosis is a common, progressive condition affecting older adults and frequently encountered across outpatient, inpatient, and post-acute care settings. While surgical decision-making resides primarily with spine surgeons, non-surgical clinicians play a critical role in early recognition, conservative management, perioperative optimization, functional recovery, and long-term outcomes. This presentation is designed to lose existing knowledge gaps related to indications for surgery, timing of referral, post-operative precautions, and realistic functional recovery trajectories. Participants will gain skills enabling them to coordinate multidisciplinary care effectively, avoiding unnecessary delays, inappropriate referrals, prolonged hospitalizations, or suboptimal rehabilitation strategies.
Target Audience
The activity is designed for Primary Care Physicians, Hospitalists, and Physical Therapists.
Learning Objectives
Upon conclusion of this symposium, learners should be able to:
- Recognition of pathoanatomy, clinical presentation, and natural history of lumbar spinal stenosis, including correlation between imaging findings and symptomatology.
- Evaluate current evidence-based indications for nonoperative management versus surgical intervention, including decompression alone and decompression with fusion.
- Apply patient-specific factors (e.g., age, comorbidities, instability, sagittal alignment) to optimize surgical decision-making and improve functional outcomes in lumbar spinal stenosis.
Addison McGill, MSW, MHA
Accreditation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation: The HCA Healthcare Continental Division designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM . Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Commercial Support: This Activity was developed without support from any ineligible company.*The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Note: The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests – unless the provider of clinical services is owned, or controlled by, and ACCME defined ineligible company.
Disclosure: The HCA Healthcare Continental Division is committed to providing CME that is balanced, objective, and evidenced-based. In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Integrity and Independence all parties involved in content development are required to disclose all conflicts of interest with ACCME defined ineligible companies. The HCA Healthcare Continental Division has identified, reviewed, and mitigated all conflicts of interest that speakers, authors, course directors, planners, peer reviewers, or relevant staff disclose prior to the delivery of any educational activity. All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated. None of the planners, faculty, and those in control of this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Available Credit
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™HCA Healthcare Continental Division is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
HCA Healthcare Continental Division designates this for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. - 1.00 Attendance
Activity Registration Requirements
Learners must have a CME.HealthONEcares.com account in order to access/complete the following requirements. To complete the activity, attendees must...
- Participate in the activity
- Mark their attendance via SMS code
- Complete the Activity Evaluation
- Claim the number of hours attended.
Learners who complete the requirements above will receive the designated credits they are eligible for. Learners interested in CME credit must verify their profession is listed in their profile in order to be eligible for credits.
Required Hardware/software
We recommend the following hardware/software to successfully view and complete the contents of this course:
| Recommended Desktop Parameters | For ease of use, we strongly recommend using a desktop computer to complete this course. The following desktop web browsers are compatible with our system: Desktop: Chrome, Internet Explorer, MS Edge, Safari |
| Recommended Mobile Parameters | While not recommended, if you are familiar with completing courses online you may complete this course using a mobile device. For those wishing to complete this activity on Mobile, the following systems are recommended: Apple iPhones and iPad devices on iOS 10 or later |
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