Decompression and paraspinous tension band: a novel treatment method for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis

Prior studies have demonstrated superiority of decompression and fusion over decompression alone for treatment of lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis. More recent studies have investigated whether non-fusion stabilization could provide the durable clinical improvement after decompression and fusion.