As the population ages, this complaint becomes even more frequent. Characterized by back, leg and neck pain, spinal stenosis affects more than 200,000 adults in the United States and an estimated ...
Before knowing about symptoms of spinal stenosis we need to know about what spinal stenosis is. To simplify it the word stenosis means narrowing. So this is a disease condition where the diameter ...
It is a common cause of neck pain and is more common in elderly patients. Up to 26% percent of people over the age of 64 may have cervical stenosis despite not having any symptoms. The spinal cord is ...
Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a common condition that occurs when the spinal canal narrows, leading to pressure on the spinal cord and nerves. This condition often results in pain, numbness ...
The result of this literature review documents a remarkable list of various quantitative radiologic criteria applied to describe lumbar spinal stenosis. Measurement of antero-posterior diameter ...
After reading the publications 7 papers fulfilled the inclusion criteria, and 60 papers were excluded because they did not report on any quantitative radiological sign of lumbar spinal stenosis.
Ligamentum flavum hypertrophy (LFH) is a condition characterized by the thickening of the ligamentum flavum, a ligament in the spine that can contribute to lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS).