This week we are going to discuss a very prevalent cause of low back and leg pain with sciatica—lumbar spinal stenosis. There are two types of lumbar spinal stenosis and both involve narrowing of the ...

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 ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD Key Takeaways Neural foraminal stenosis occurs when the space a spinal nerve ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an extremely active 79-year-old woman. For at least 10 years, I have had lower back pain. I assumed it was arthritis and ignored it. By June, after an extremely tough exercise ...

Persistent leg pain that flares up while walking and fades with rest may point to a hidden condition of the spine. Tom Miller, MD, talks with orthopedic spine surgeon Darrel Brodke, MD, about how ...

No significant association was seen between type of index operation and need for revision surgery among patients with degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis (DLSS), according to a cohort study. Among 328 ...

Jerry Smith has been on his feet for most of his life. The 80-year-old Great Kills man worked as a doorman for Manhattan night clubs and owned a neighborhood saloon in the 1970s. Three years ago, ...

NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Premia Spine, a medical technology company changing the way debilitating chronic leg and back pain is treated, today announced that a single-center study evaluating ...

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 condition characterized by narrowing of the spinal canal, a tubular structure which encloses the spinal cord. Narrowing of the spinal canal leads to compression of the spinal cord ...