Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD Neural foraminal stenosis is a common condition that can cause symptoms referred ...

A review by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has found that epidural steroid injections (ESIs) provided short-term ...

Medically reviewed by David Kesselman, DCSpinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal which houses the nerves and ...

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 ...

A new review reaffirms that spinal steroid injections only reduce neck and back pain for a few months, but they don't improve ...

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 ...

There is evidence for epidural steroid injections reducing pain and disability in cervical and lumbar radiculopathies.

Laminectomy. This is the most common surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis. In this procedure, a surgeon removes parts of the bone, bone spurs, or ligaments in your back. This relieves pressure on ...

Up to 26% percent of people over the age of 64 may have cervical stenosis despite not having any symptoms. The spinal cord is an important part of the central nervous system that carries signals ...

In spinal stenosis, the injections appeared to reduce disability but not pain. Compared to those who didn't receive injections, 26% more people who did reported less disability up to three months ...

Armon and an expert panel reviewed the latest evidence on the efficacy of ESIs for cervical and lumbar spinal stenosis and radiculopathies. They focused on 90 randomized controlled trials ...