What are the common symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis?

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In life, no one wants the disease to affect themselves, especially those more serious diseases, should pay special attention to it, and spinal stenosis is a common problem, in patients with spinal stenosis, most of them are middle-aged and elderly people, which is greatly related to their lumbar degeneration. So once you get older, you need to know more about the symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis, so that you can compare with some of your own abnormalities, and you can find the disease as soon as possible.

What are the common symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis?

First, the patient has obvious symptoms of low back pain and intermittent claudication, which is the main symptom of spinal stenosis. Patients often have low back and leg pain when walking one or two hundred meters. After bending down for a while or squatting, the symptoms will be relieved or disappeared immediately. If they continue to walk, the pain will appear again.

Second, the patient has obvious symptoms of low back pain and intermittent claudication, which is the main symptom of spinal stenosis. Patients often have low back and leg pain when walking one or two hundred meters. After bending down for a while or squatting, the symptoms will be relieved or disappeared immediately. If they continue to walk, the pain will appear again.

Third: spinal stenosis can lead to compression of cauda equina, symptoms and signs of saddle area and sphincter. In severe cases, symptoms of defecation and sexual disturbance can occur. In addition, compression of cauda equina and nerve root can affect defecation and even cause incomplete paralysis of lower limbs.

matters needing attention

In fact, for patients with spinal stenosis, they often say more symptoms, and the performance of the body will be less. Check the spine deflection is not obvious, the lumbar spine is usually normal, only after the extension pain. Straight leg raising test was normal or only moderate traction pain, a few patients with lower limb muscle atrophy, Achilles tendon reflex sometimes weakened or disappeared.