Chronic spinal stenosis affects millions of people worldwide, causing debilitating pain, numbness, and mobility limitations that can severely impact quality of life. This condition occurs when the ...

This week we are going to discuss a very prevalent cause of low back and leg pain with sciatica—lumbar spinal stenosis. There are two types of lumbar spinal stenosis and both involve narrowing of the ...

Spinal stenosis is a very common, but potentially debilitating, condition. Stenosis is a generic medical term for narrowing. Stenosis in your heart’s blood vessels can lead to a heart attack. Stenosis ...

Doctor Craig Forsthoefel enjoys the complexity of the spine and understanding the conditions that cause patients pain and disability. Patients with spinal stenosis often have pain in their back, legs ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an extremely active 79-year-old woman. For at least 10 years, I have had lower back pain. I assumed it was arthritis and ignored it. By June, after an extremely tough exercise ...

Spinal stenosis is a condition where the spinal canal narrows, causing compression of the nerves passing through it and leading to various symptoms. The spinal canal is a passage along the center of ...

This study lends quantitative evidence to support the popular idea that patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis and spinal stenosis improve more with surgical intervention than those who have ...

Back pain illustration Adding corticosteroids to epidural lidocaine injections does not improve patient-reported pain or function at 12 months. In patients with central lumbar spinal stenosis, adding ...

Bennie W. Chiles III, M.D., F.A.A.N.S., F.A.C.S. Q. What exactly is spinal stenosis? A. The word stenosis has both Latin and Greek origins, and in medical terms refers to narrowing of any body passage ...

DOCTOR, WE’RE TALKING ABOUT SPINAL STENOSIS. IT CAN BE A VERY PAINFUL CONDITION AND IT CAN BECOME SO BAD THAT IT DOES REQUIRE SURGERY AS 11 NEWS ANCHOR LACEY GRIFFITH EXPLAINS. FOR ONE MARYLAND WOMAN, ...

About 40% of Americans have experienced sciatica – pain that radiates from the sciatic nerve, which starts in the lower back and extends through the hips, buttocks and legs. Though the pain can be ...

Q: I suspect my back and leg pain are related to spinal stenosis. What causes this and what treatments are available? A: Spinal stenosis is narrowing of the central spinal canal — the channel inside ...