What symptom does lumbar canal narrow?

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Nowadays, people's living standards continue to improve, but diseases always threaten people's health unconsciously. As a common disease, lumbar spinal stenosis is often ignored, so the hidden danger of lumbar spinal stenosis is more and more obvious. In patients with lumbar spinal stenosis, most of them are middle-aged and elderly people. So what are the symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis? So next, let's have a specific understanding.

What symptom does lumbar canal narrow?

Lumbar spinal stenosis often starts slowly, develops gradually, presents bilateral symptoms or signs, with few negative symptoms. The common symptoms of lumbar spinal canal stenosis include long-term lumbosacral pain, lower limb pain, lower limb weakness, gradual numbness, unstable gait, walking difficulty, intermittent claudication, numbness can gradually develop from the foot to the leg, thigh and lumbosacral, abdominal banding feeling, severe abnormal urination and defecation, husband and wife life disorders, paraplegia, quadriplegia or hemiplegia, etc.

When the cervical vertebra degenerates, long-term compression of the spinal cord will lead to blood supply disorders, resulting in hypoxia. Patients will appear chest, abdomen or lower limb belt when the feeling of walking, so do not need a long walk, after a few minutes of rest to relieve symptoms, we can continue to walk. Usually walking is not stable gait, we should pay attention to whether it is caused by cervical spinal stenosis, to timely check in the hospital, these are common symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis.

Central type of lumbar spinal stenosis, lumbar lesions involving cauda equina, resulting in neurogenic intermittent claudication cauda equina, lower limb dysfunction is more common. Long term lumbosacral pain, leg pain, progressive weakness and numbness of both lower limbs, intermittent claudication, walking difficulties. Among them, numbness can gradually develop from the foot to the lower leg, thigh and lumbosacral, abdominal banding feeling, severe abnormal defecation, paraplegia and so on. Hyperextension of the waist can aggravate the numbness and pain of the lower limbs, which is the positive sign of hyperextension test and is an important sign for the diagnosis of spinal stenosis.

matters needing attention

Patients with this disease should pay more attention to the prevention of this disease. Patients should pay attention to the waist protection in daily life, and often carry out some waist health care activities, usually pay attention to the correct use of the waist, diet should also pay attention to some reasonable adjustment, regular physical examination and so on.