Spinal Canal Narrowing
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our spinal cord is a bundle of nerves that runs through a tunnel formed by your vertebrae. The tunnel is called the spinal canal. Spinal canal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal in your lower back. Stenosis, which means narrowing, can put pressure on your spinal cord or on the nerves that run from your spinal cord to your muscles. The spinal canal can occur anywhere in your spine, but it most commonly occurs in the lower back.
If you have spinal canal stenosis, you may have trouble walking or find that you need to lean forward to relieve pressure on your lower back. You may also have pain or numbness in your legs. In more severe cases, you may have difficulty controlling your bowels and bladder.
Treatment
In the first stage, exercises are recommended in addition to drug therapy. In addition, if the patient is above his ideal weight, he is asked to lose weight. As a result of all these, if the pain continues, only physical therapy is applied. If there is no result from the treatment in the advanced stage, treatment is applied with injections around the spinal cord. If the disease does not respond despite all the solution methods, surgical treatment is applied.