Treatment Of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis With Interspinous ...

Although in theory, a stenosis (narrowing) of upper lumbar vertebrae could cause compression of the spinal cord; in reality, it is the lumbar spinal nerves that are compressed. Symptoms include initial acute local pain, followed by chronic numbness and/or weakness in the area of the lower limb to which the nerve’s fibers are distributed. ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download