How is intervertebral foramen narrow treated

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There are many patients with intervertebral foramen stenosis in our life. Both men and women may suffer from this disease. My cousin is a member of the school basketball team, but he can't play basketball in school since half a year ago, because he was diagnosed with cervical spinal stenosis, which is characterized by numbness of limbs, dyskinesia and difficulty in lifting. Very uncomfortable, spinal stenosis refers to various forms of spinal canal, nerve root canal and intervertebral foramen stenosis, including spinal canal volume changes caused by soft tissue and dural sac itself stenosis. The spinal cord, nerves and blood vessels are compressed and stimulated by spinal stenosis, which leads to the occurrence of spinal stenosis.

How is intervertebral foramen narrow treated

First, spinal stenosis is generally divided into two categories, congenital developmental and acquired secondary spinal stenosis. According to the location of stenosis, it can be divided into cervical spinal stenosis, lumbar spinal stenosis and thoracic spinal stenosis. The most common is lumbar spinal stenosis. Cervical spinal stenosis is often attributed to cervical spondylotic myelopathy, while thoracic spinal stenosis is rare. According to the anatomic location, it can be divided into central stenosis, lateral recess stenosis and nerve root foramen stenosis.

Second: the symptoms of cervical spinal stenosis develop slowly, early can have dizziness, hand numbness and other symptoms, lumbar spinal stenosis early performance for low back pain, lumbar distension, lumbar tight feeling. With the development of the disease, the symptoms of the waist reduced or even disappeared. There were numbness, pain, weakness, chills, hypoesthesia and even muscle atrophy in lower limbs.

Third: thoracic spinal stenosis. Most of the patients with thoracic spinal stenosis are over 40 years old. They have occult symptoms and gradually worsen. In the early stage, they only feel that their lower limbs are weak, stiff, heavy and inflexible after walking for a certain distance. They can continue to walk after a short rest. They have intermittent claudication due to spinal cord, which is similar to the neurogenic intervertebral disc which is commonly characterized by pain and numbness in lumbar spinal stenosis Intermittent claudication was significantly different.

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Patients can choose conservative treatment and active prevention and health care. According to the measures, conservative treatment mainly includes rest, physical therapy, massage, medication and the use of some medical devices, such as low back pain treatment belt. It has a good protection and fixation effect on the waist at the same time of treatment. The key is that it is convenient for him to use in daily life and does not affect his work and rest directly.