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The Usefulness of Vitamin D Supplementation in the Treatment of Symptomatic Spinal Stenosis

Professor Koh Sang-bong, Daegu Catholic University Hospital *Resale and DB prohibited

[대구=뉴시스] Reporter Park Joon = A paper by the research team of Professor Koh Sang-bong of the Department of Orthopedics at Daegu Catholic University Hospital was recently published in the SCIE journal MEDICINE (Baltimore).

According to Daegu Catholic University on the 28th, the paper published by Professor Go’s research team is ‘The usefulness of vitamin D supplementation in the functional outcome of symptomatic spinal stenosis that does not require surgery.’

In the research team’s paper, treatment with high-dose vitamin D injections in symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis patients who do not require surgery due to vitamin D deficiency in the blood reduces back pain and improves the patient’s quality of life for as short as 4 weeks to up to 26 weeks. improves

Accordingly, the paper explains that measuring the blood vitamin D concentration in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and supplementing vitamin D in cases of deficiency can lead to improved treatment results.

Professor Go said, “The research results are about vitamin D supplementation, a research topic of interest so far, and we expect that it will serve as a good starting point for further extensive and large-scale research.” He added, “These research results can be used in clinical practice to treat the spine, a representative degenerative lesion of the spine. “I hope it will be of great help in treating stenosis,” he said.

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2023-10-27 18:00:00

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