How does lumbar canal narrow ache

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Before because the waist often have pain, afraid of terrible disease, so went to the hospital for examination. Results check out found that lumbar spinal stenosis, this pain and usually many are not the same. Next, I'll introduce how lumbar spinal stenosis pain.

How does lumbar canal narrow ache

First, most patients with lumbar spinal stenosis have a history of low back pain or accompanied by low back pain. Pain is generally mild, bed rest is reduced or disappeared, lumbar flexion is not limited, extension activities are often limited. Lumbar spinal stenosis can lead to cauda equina compression, saddle area symptoms, signs and sphincter symptoms. In severe cases, dysuria and sexual life can occur.

Second: obvious lumbocrural pain and intermittent claudication. This is the main symptom of spinal stenosis. Patients often have low back and leg pain when they walk one or two hundred meters. After bending down for a while or squatting, the symptoms will immediately alleviate or disappear. If they continue to walk, the pain will appear again soon. The symptoms worsened when the spine was extended backward and relieved when the spine was bent forward. Compression of cauda equina and nerve roots may affect urination and defecation, and even cause incomplete paralysis of lower limbs. Patients with spinal stenosis often have more complaints and less signs. Check the spine deflection is not obvious, normal lumbar spine, only after extension pain.

Third: nerve root canal stenosis causes corresponding symptoms and signs of nerve root compression or stimulation. Some patients showed intermittent claudication, others showed persistent radioactive nerve root symptoms, mostly pain, numbness, distending pain, channeling pain, the degree of pain is different. The location of nerve root symptoms is related to the compressed nerve root, which is manifested as the weakening of acupuncture sensation, abnormal pain sensation, weakening of muscle strength and abnormal tendon reflex in the corresponding nerve root distribution area.

matters needing attention

Now, maybe low back pain is a very normal phenomenon for us, and many people will ignore it. But if we have low back pain all the time, we have to consider whether we belong to lumbar spinal stenosis and determine the cause before we can proceed with treatment.