What symptom does lumbar canal stenosis have?

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According to clinical investigation, most of the patients with lumbar spinal stenosis are middle-aged and elderly people, which is closely related to their lumbar degeneration. So once you get older, you need to know more about the symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis, so as to compare with some of your own abnormalities.

What symptom does lumbar canal stenosis have?

The most typical performance is intermittent claudication. Many patients will respond to the doctor when they go to the hospital. They feel that their lower limbs are filled with lead soon after they walk. They feel heavy and weak, and they also have numbness. They have to squat down or sit down for a rest. These symptoms still appear when they continue to walk, but they generally do not feel uncomfortable when they ride a bicycle. Weakness of both lower limbs mainly refers to the calf muscles, sometimes involving the foot, but some patients may be unilateral, and the severity of symptoms will be different.

Lumbar pain and recurrent history, senile lumbar spinal stenosis is a long-term chronic disease, first of all because of lumbar degeneration, ligament damage, so in the formation of the disease process, must be accompanied by low back pain.

Because lumbar spinal canal stenosis is also accompanied by nerve root canal stenosis, so patients also have nerve root compression symptoms. In addition to low back pain, there will also be lower limb radiation pain, and feel lower limb fatigue numbness. But different patients may have different parts of lower limb pain, and the tenderness points are not limited. When telling doctors, patients can only describe pain or numbness in a certain area, and the symptoms generally do not last, and the onset time is irregular.

matters needing attention

Lumbar spinal stenosis has a typical symptom, which can be distinguished from other diseases such as lumbar disc herniation, lumbar muscle strain and so on.