Embryology of the lumbar spine, Hans K.Uhthoff and Hani El-Kommos; principles of anatomy applied to the surgery of lumbar spinal stenosis, H.V.Crock; the pathogenesis of low back and leg pain, Michael A.Edgar; definition and classification of spinal stenosis, John E.Nixon; the differential diagnosis of spinal stenosis, John E.Nixon; plain radiographs and myelography in spinal stenosis, David John Wilson; special investigations - vertebral canal measurement by ultrasound, R.W.Porter; special investigations - electrophysical investigations in lumbo-sacral spinal stenosis, Geoffrey Rushworth; computer tomography in spinal stenosis, Stephen J.Golding; MRI in spinal stenosis, S.J.Austin and B.S.Worthington; congenital and developmental stenosis, John E.Nixon; degenerative spinal stenosis, John E.Nixon; acquired stenosis, postoperative lumbar spinal stenosis, Alexander E.Brodsky and Momtaz A.Khalil; traumatic and post-traumatic spinal stenosis, T.R.Morley and G.R.Houghton; metabolic causes of spinal stenosis, Roger Smith; conservative management of spinal stenosis, John E.Nixon; the surgical management of spinal stenosis, John E.Nixon; the results of surgical treatment of spinal stenosis, John E.Nixon; the "multiple-operated" lumbar spine, John E.Nixon; psychosocial aspects of low back pain, Jennifer Klaber-Moffat.