DOCTOR, WE’RE TALKING ABOUT SPINAL STENOSIS. IT CAN BE A VERY PAINFUL CONDITION AND IT CAN BECOME SO BAD THAT IT DOES REQUIRE SURGERY AS 11 NEWS ANCHOR LACEY GRIFFITH EXPLAINS. FOR ONE MARYLAND WOMAN, ...

NEITHER GLASSES. NORMALLY A BUSY WOMAN WHO LIKES TO TRAVEL. BUT SHE SAYS HER SPINAL STENOSIS DIAGNOSIS TWO YEARS AGO CHANGED EVERYTHING. IT WAS DEBILITATING. I COULDN’T EVEN WALK. I WAS IN A ...

Dear Doctor: My wife is 77 and has spinal stenosis. She’s often in pain. We read about a new procedure called “minimally invasive lumbar decompression,” which we are hoping might help. She really ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an extremely active 79-year-old woman. For at least 10 years, I have had lower back pain. I assumed it was arthritis and ignored it. By June, after an extremely tough exercise ...

Lumbar spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal that happens as we age, sometimes making it painful to stand and walk. Now, doctors are using Vertos Medical's minimally invasive "MILD" ...

Dear Doctor K: I have painful spinal stenosis in my lower back. My doctor wants me to have surgery, but that seems extreme. Is surgery really my best option? Dear Reader: Spinal stenosis is a ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – If you suffer from nerve pain caused by spinal stenosis, you may benefit from a relatively new, minimally invasive procedure that helps create space for your spinal cord ...

Ordinarily, you might not think too much about your spinal cord, since it’s protected by your spinal canal. But imagine what might happen if your spinal canal began to narrow around your spinal cord.

Surgery for spinal stenosis of the neck aims to relieve compression and improve symptoms. Spinal stenosis is a compression of nerves in the spine. The condition most commonly affects the lumbar spine, ...

Spinal stenosis is a condition that occurs when the small spinal canal, which contains the nerve roots and spinal cord, becomes compressed. This causes a "pinching" of the spinal cord and nerve roots, ...

November 07, 2025 – PRESSADVANTAGE – North American Spine and Pain has announced the introduction of a new clinical approach ...

Throughout my career as a physical therapist, I've heard this question so many times that I felt it was worthy of this article. Stenosis is also one of the more misunderstood spinal diagnoses. In ...