Lumbar stenosis: what is it? Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

, combined with compression of the spinal cord and / or spinal nerves.

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Example of spinal stenosis, lumbar stenosis is mainly related to aging, but can also be due to spondylosis, a herniated disc, a spinal tumor, lumbar spondylolisthesis, an injury or a congenital malformation of the spine, or to Paget's disease.
Lumbar stenosis can be symptomatic or asymptomatic; if it is asymptomatic, its typical manifestations are: pain in the lower back, pain in the buttocks and legs, numbness or tingling along the buttocks and legs, weak legs and foot drop.
Lumbar 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 lumbar stenosis varies from conservative to surgical, depending on the underlying cause and the severity of the symptoms.

, 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.

Lumbar stenosis is also known as lumbar 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, of any tubular shaped anatomical structure.