spinal stenosis
Sign in to saveAlso known as cervical spinal stenosis, lumbar spinal stenosis, Spinal stenosis of lumbar region, Extensive spinal canal stenosis
bone deterioration disease that has material basis in bony spurs, disc degeneration, or thickened ligaments which results in narrowing located in spinal cord
Key facts
- Specialty
- Orthopedics , neurosurgery
- Symptoms
- Pain, numbness , or weakness in the arms or legs
- Complications
- Loss of bladder control , loss of bowel control , sexual dysfunction
- Usual onset
- Gradual
- Types
- Cervical , thoracic , lumbar
- Causes
- Osteoarthritis , rheumatoid arthritis , spinal tumors , trauma, Paget's disease of the bone , scoliosis , spondylolisthesis , achondroplasia
- Diagnostic method
- Based on symptoms and medical imaging
- Differential diagnosis
- Cauda equina syndrome , osteomylitis , peripheral vascular disease , fibromyalgia
- Treatment
- Medications, exercises, bracing , surgery.
- Medication
- NSAIDs , acetaminophen , steroid injections
- Frequency
- Up to 8% of people
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
16,259 papers- Lumbar spinal stenosis.Best practice & research. Clinical rheumatology · 2010
- Spinal stenosis.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2014
- Spinal stenosis.South Dakota medicine : the journal of the South Dakota State Medical Association · 2006
- Spinal stenosis.Disease-a-month : DM · 2005
- Spinal stenosis.Instructional course lectures · 2001
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- LUMBAR TREFOIL CANAL.JPG
Show 10 more facts
- Commons category
- Spinal stenosis
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0003416
- health specialty
- neurosurgery
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- pregabalin
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- ICD-9-CM
- 724.09
- external data available at URL
- www.nanbyou.or.jp/entry/101
- has cause
- achondroplasia
- medical examination
- medical imaging
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C177444
via Wikidata · CC0
~11 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Spinal stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of the spinal canal or neural foramen that results in pressure on the spinal cord or nerve roots. Symptoms may include pain, numbness, or weakness in the arms or legs. Symptoms are typically gradual in onset and improve with leaning forward. Severe symptoms may include loss of bladder control, loss of bowel control, or sexual dysfunction.
Causes may include osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, spinal tumors, trauma, Paget's disease of the bone, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, and the genetic condition achondroplasia. It can be classified by the part of the spine affected into cervical, thoracic, and lumbar stenosis. Lumbar stenosis is the most common, followed by cervical stenosis. Diagnosis is generally based on symptoms and medical imaging.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “spinal stenosis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.