Spinal stenosis
Spinal canal stenosis is a pathological narrowing of the lumen of the spinal canal. The disease is based on the compression of nerve fibers by soft and bone tissues that penetrate into the canal cavity.
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Clinical manifestations
- Back pain
- Neurogenic intermittent claudication syndrome
- Pain (radicular) in one or both legs
- Weakness in one or both legs
- Numbness of the shins and feet, weakness and fatigue in the legs at different levels
- Sensations such as burning, tingling, pressure in the legs
Reasons
- Traumatic displacement of vertebrae or intracanal hematomas
- Changes in the intervertebral joints in the form of their hypertrophy and proliferation of bone tissue inside the spinal canal
- Anatomical defect of the spinal arch
- Inflammation in Bechterew's disease (in this case, the capsules of the intervertebral joints thicken)
- Forestier's disease
- Cysts and tumors that appear inside the spinal canal
General information
Diagnostics
- MRI of one or more sections of the spine
- Spondylography with functional tests (standing upright, leaning forward and extending backward) to determine instability of the lumbar spine
- Electrophysiological research methods (ENMG) - for differential diagnostics of degenerative diseases with neuropathy, myelopathy and tunnel syndromes
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