An example of spinal stenosis, cervical stenosis is mainly related to aging, but can also be due to conditions such as: spondylosis, disc herniation, spinal tumor, cervical spondylolisthesis, Paget's disease, injuries or congenital malformations of the spine.
When symptomatic, cervical stenosis typically causes: pain in the neck, pain and weakness in the upper and / or lower limbs, numbness or tingling along the upper and / or lower limbs, clumsiness of the hands and balance disturbances.
Cervical stenosis is a condition for the diagnosis of which, in addition to clinical investigations (physical examination and anamnesis), also diagnostic imaging tests (X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging, CT and myelography) are needed.
Treatment of cervical stenosis varies from conservative to surgical, depending on the underlying cause and the severity of the symptoms.
Cervical stenosis is therefore a spinal pathology with repercussions on the central nervous system.
Cervical stenosis is, together with lumbar stenosis, one of the two most common forms of spinal stenosis; Spinal stenosis is a pain in the spinal column, characterized by the narrowing of a segment of the spinal canal and by the compression of the spinal cord present in the aforementioned segment.
Cervical stenosis is also known as cervical spinal stenosis.
In medicine, the word "stenosis" refers to an abnormal and unnatural narrowing of a blood vessel, a hollow organ, an orifice and, in general, any tubular shaped anatomical structure.
