Gobackache Foundation is proud to work with patients in need of many different kinds of spinal stenosis pain relief. Some of our most advanced treatment options include physical therapy plans, injections, and surgery. If you or someone you know is suffering from severe pain associated with cervical, thoracic or lumbar spinal stenosis, Gobackache Foundation can perform an advanced spinal stenosis surgery, which has over a 95% success rate.
What is spinal stenosis?
Spinal stenosis occurs when, usually due to the age of the body, the spinal canal narrows and puts pressure on the important spinal nerves. Spinal stenosis is called cervical stenosis when it occurs in the neck area, thoracic stenosis in the middle to upper part of the back, and lumbar stenosis in the lower back area. Narrowing can happen for several reasons, such as ligaments and cartilage thickening in the canal, or excessive bone growth simply causing the opening to become more slender over time. The risk of this problem increases as a patient passes 50 years of age, due in part to years of stress on the spine and the tendency of tissue and bone to become less sturdy or flexible with decades of repeated use. Bone disease or spinal injury may also be contributing factors in stenosis of the spine, in patients of any age.
The spine has joints at the front and back. The front joint is between two vertebral bodies which have a spinal disc at each level and the back joints are called facet joints which have a synovial membrane at each joint level like a knee joint. Injury to spinal joints will cause progressive arthritis of the facet joint and degeneration of the spinal disc ( loos of water content of the disc ). This condition is called spinal stenosis where there will be multiple roots are compressed due to the formation of bone spurs and narrow the diameter of a canal to accommodate roots. This will lead to back pain arm or leg radiation. If stenosis happens in the neck region, a patient will have major symptoms like weakness ( paralysis ) and loss of sensation in the hands and legs. Patients may have urinary and bowel problems due to these nerves giving information to the urinary bladder and intestine. Foraminal narrowing/stenosis is the terminology which is used when there is compression over the nerve caused by a chronic inflammatory process.
Those who have spinal stenosis and /or foraminal narrowing have mechanical compression over the root and they are benefited from surgical decompression. Endoscopic / Microscopic /MISS and open surgery are the options available for them which will depend on the severity of compression and the patient’s preference. These patients will get new life due to the absence of pain and improvement in quality of life immediately after surgery.
No medicine or physiotherapy can improve the pain for a permanent period.
Those who have spinal canal stenosis / foraminal narrowing have pain in the back as soon as they try to stand up and start walking. This pain is a radicular pattern and this will depend on the number of nerves involved due to compression.
Spinal canal stenosis in the cervical spine is due to OPLL ( Ossified posterior longitudinal ligament ) and spinal disc degeneration. They have problems with walking, weakness in their hands and legs, difficulty in holding objects, difficulty in mixing food, and difficulty in combing hair. They may have urinary as well as bowel problems. These patients are very high susceptibility to develop permanent paralysis and they get bedridden. Surgery is the only cure for them.
Similarly in the lower back region spinal stenosis can be due to OLF ( ossified ligamentum flevum ), degenerative disc disease, and arthritis of the facet joint. These patients should have spinal decompression surgery as soon as possible to stop the damage to spinal nerves.
Spinal stenosis curable treatment
While temporary relief from spinal stenosis can be achieved by exercising and physical therapy, the pain associated with spinal stenosis often returns. For those patients with increasing pain and limitations, the best way to resolve the ongoing effects from stenosis of the spine is to consider Go Backache Foundation. A short recovery period, and unmatched professionalism in spinal stenosis treatment, Go Backache Foundation provides even the most nervous patient peace of mind when it comes to his or her recovery from spinal stenosis surgery.
Our well-trained staff is available to answer all spinal stenosis surgery questions and have a proven success rate of over 95%. Contact us, and the pain you suffer from spinal stenosis can swiftly become a thing of the past.