Avalia？？o da qualidade de vida em pacientes submetidos à cirurgia de estenose de canal lombar com mais de 60 anos

objective: evaluate changes in quality of life before and after lumbar arthrodesis surgery by means of questionnaires owestry disablity index (odi), roland-morris (rm) and visual analogue scale (vas). methods: we evaluated the changes in the questionnaires (odi, rm and vas) in the preoperative period, 1 week, 1 month, 2 months, 6 months, 1 year and 2 years after surgery. results: we studied 38 patients aged over 60 with follow up of at least two years. an improvement of 55.94% in odi, of 49.18% in rm and 39.48% in vas was observed. conclusion: the results show an improvement in the indices studied, with rates similar to previous studies, despite the discrepancy among the various studies and the lack of data on our population.