When elders in a house start to complain about having a backache or pain on their legs and mostly every time they have to walk, always love asking for a short break. This could be the risk of spinal stenosis. Age and disc deterioration are causes of symptoms. In fact, this pain has been found less comparing to a case of Herniated Nucleus Pulposus.
What cause the Spinal Stenosis symptoms?
In elders, apart from the deterioration of disc, tendon and joints, at the time that the spine starts to deteriorate, the joints will cause friction leading to enlargement. This, naturally happens when the body tries to heal itself to add more strength, conversely, the joint enlargement causes compression to the nerves inside the spinal canal. It becomes a major cause of nerves pain around the body.
Have a lumbar pain, Should visit a doctor immediately…
When Lumbar Spinal Stenosis occurs, patients might have an irregularly pain on their waists, especially from the middle area of the waist to their legs. In fact, if the pain is left. It could continuously affect or compress the nerves, which might lead symptoms to worse level, such as, slow walking caused by muscular weakness.
How to provide a treatment for Spinal stenosis patient?
Primarily, a doctor will provide a treatment basing on the level of symptoms, for instance, giving an analgesic, antispasmodic and medicines for nerve care includes pain relievers. Furthermore, patients need to do some exercises and sometimes need to receive a physical therapy as well in order to delay the joint deterioration and to reduce the symptoms of Spinal stenosis. In addition, the advantages of the MIS is that patients will not suffer from blood loss including they will have fast recover which saves the times of a hospital stay.
Hence, according to a disease, what you can do to prevent yourself is exercising regularly to strengthen the back muscle, remember to not lift heavy objects in order to avoid weight pressing on the spine. Moreover, you should control your body weight to slow down a deterioration of the spine or disc. Following the mentioned suggestions can certainly protect you from the Spinal stenosis in the future.
Neurology and Spine Center
Phyathai 3 hospital
Tel: +66-2467-1111 ext. 3262-3
Hotline: +6681-9008203
