Neural foraminal stenosis causes nerve irritation and compression when the space a spinal nerve travels through narrows.

Cervical stenosis is the narrowing of the vertebral canal in the neck. 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 myelopathy is a condition that happens when the spinal cord in the neck is compressed or squeezed. There are many things that can cause this, but one of the most common is cervical ...

Symptoms often include stiffness and pain. The uncovertebral joints, or the Luschka’s joints, sit on each side of the cervical disks in the neck. “Hypertrophy” is a term referring to the ...

Compared to lumbar stenosis, there is greater risk of spinal cord compression with cervical stenosis since the spinal cord cannot move as freely as in the cervical canal. Spinal stenosis can ...

What Are the Treatments for Spinal Stenosis? Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the canal in your spinal column that affects mostly people age 50 and older. Nothing can cure it, but there are ...

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 ...

Cervical disc replacement is a safe option across all obesity levels compared to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, ...

The main symptom of cervical radiculopathy is pain that spreads into the arm, neck, chest, and/or shoulders. A person with radiculopathy may experience muscle weakness and/or numbness or tingling ...

Background: Beside symptoms and clinical signs radiological findings are crucial in the diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). We investigate which quantitative radiological signs are ...

Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM ... increased rates of early spinal degeneration as well as spinal cord injury secondary to cervical spinal stenosis.5 While the exact mechanism remains unclear, ...