What are the symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis

Update Date: 2025-04-19 Source: Network

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My father always said that his back was sore and his back was aching. He felt numb in the back of his brain and cervical vertebra. He always couldn't sleep at night because of the pain. So I took him to the hospital for examination. The doctor said that the vertebral artery was narrow and needed stent surgery. Now it's much better. Today, let me talk with you about the symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis.

What are the symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis

Symptom 1: lumbar spinal stenosis is common in middle-aged people, male more than female, the main symptoms of patients are long-term recurrent low back pain and intermittent claudication. The nature of pain is soreness or burning pain. Some of them can radiate to the outside or front of the thigh. Most of them are bilateral. Symptoms can appear alternately in the left and right legs.

Symptom 2: when standing and walking, low back pain or numbness and weakness appear, pain and claudication gradually aggravate, and even can not continue to walk, symptoms improve after rest. If the patient's condition is serious, it may cause urgent urination or dysuria. Some patients may have lower limb muscle atrophy, especially anterior tibial muscle and extensor muscle, lower limb pain, slow knee or Achilles tendon reflex, and positive straight leg raising test.

Symptom 3: lumbar spinal stenosis refers to various forms of spinal canal, neural tube and intervertebral foramen stenosis, and soft tissue caused by the change of spinal canal volume and dural sac itself stenosis, resulting in a series of low back and leg pain and a series of neurological symptoms. Can appear intermittent claudication, serious when can appear defecation and sexual dysfunction and other symptoms.

matters needing attention

Spinal stenosis treatment method is more, but everyone's condition is different, the treatment method is not the same, and should pay attention not to their waist burden is too big, and to do some activities of waist gymnastics, pay attention to their health.