Background: Beside symptoms and clinical signs radiological findings are crucial in the diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). We investigate which quantitative radiological signs are ...

Before knowing about symptoms of spinal stenosis we need to know about what spinal stenosis is. To simplify it the word stenosis means narrowing. So this is a disease condition where the diameter ...

The search in Medline and Embase, described as step one, yielded, after excluding duplicates, 170 publications. After reading title and abstract 103 papers were excluded. For the remaining 67 ...

Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spaces surrounding the spinal cord and nerve roots. When this happens to lumbar (lower back) vertebrae, the resulting compression causes sciatica. Your ...

Your doctor may talk to you about this procedure if you have a lot of lower back pain and other types ... Lumbar pain is often caused by spinal stenosis. Your spinal canal narrows naturally ...

It most commonly affects the legs, and can be caused by spinal stenosis or herniated lumbar discs in the low back. If radiating pain is keeping you awake, it may be time to consider a mattress for ...