Spinal stenosis occurs when the space inside the spinal canal becomes too narrow. When the spinal canal gets too small, the spinal cord or nerves within this space can become compressed. Some people ...

For patients with spinal stenosis, operative treatment is associated with a lower risk of death and lower costs over two years, compared with nonoperative treatment, suggests a study in the February ...

Spinal stenosis is a common condition, which with the availability of modern imaging facilities is now being increasingly recognized as a cause of low back pain and radiculopathy (leg pain) in the ...

Lumbar spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal that happens as we age, sometimes making it painful to stand and walk. Now, doctors are using Vertos Medical's minimally invasive "MILD" ...

Researchers found that ESIs probably reduced short-term pain and disability and possibly reduced long-term disability. HealthDay News — There is some evidence for epidural steroid injections (ESIs) ...

Back pain is among the most frequent reasons patients seek neurosurgery care with Cayuga Health. Although many patients attribute their back pain to a pinched nerve, the condition may be due to spinal ...

More than 312,000 lumbar spine procedures have been added to the American Spine Registry from 2015 to 2024, and posterior lumbar interbody fusions/ transforaminal lumbar interbody fusions were the ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of decompression with fusion increased, while use of decompression alone decreased from 2016 to 2019.

NEITHER GLASSES. NORMALLY A BUSY WOMAN WHO LIKES TO TRAVEL. BUT SHE SAYS HER SPINAL STENOSIS DIAGNOSIS TWO YEARS AGO CHANGED EVERYTHING. IT WAS DEBILITATING. I COULDN’T EVEN WALK. I WAS IN A ...