Spinal Stenosis treatments and therapies
Spinal stenosis is a condition in spinal cords passage which narrows the spinal canal and compresses the spinal cord and its nerves. It can affect any part in the spine and rarely affects the upper back of the body. When it affects the neck bones, it is called cervical stenosis and called lumbar stenosis, when it affects the lower back of the body. The lumbar stenosis causes pain or abnormal sensations in the legs, thighs and also in feet.
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The symptoms of the spinal stenosis are pain in the legs and thighs while walking, loss of bladder and bowel control. These symptoms occur when there is a pressure on nerves inside the narrowed spinal canal. Usually the spinal stenosis develops because of some factors like genetic, age, obesity and poor development of spine before birth. The treatment of spinal stenosis is better to prevent it or practice excellent spinal and joint health or regular exercise can help to control or reduce the chance of this condition.
The treatment of cervical stenosis is different from lumbar stenosis as the place of occurrence is also different. The different types of treatments of spinal stenosis are physical therapy, weight loss, and Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications, Oral Steroid Medications and spine surgery and many more. Spine surgery is done when the patient fails in all other treatments. During the surgery the spinal nerves are fully decompressed. This means the excess bone, and ligament are removed to allow more space for the spinal nerves to run in its way freely.
