Spinal stenosis occurs mostly in people older than 50. Younger people with a spine injury or a narrow spinal canal are also at risk. Diseases such as arthritis and scoliosis can cause spinal stenosis, too. Symptoms might appear gradually or not at all. They include pain in your neck or back, numbness, weakness or pain in your arms or legs, and foot problems.

Treatment

The initial approach to treating spinal stenosis is rest,
support devices, and physical therapy.  When these methods fail, the next step in the management of spinal stenosis is using injection therapy. Corticosteroid injections under local anesthesia can help alleviate the symptoms of spinal stenosis. If all conservative therapy fails, surgery may be needed to treat patients with spinal stenosis.

To see if injections can help you improve your symptoms and help delay surgery, please contact us at the Beverly Hills Pain Management Center at 310-858-8806.

Your spine, or backbone, protects your spinal cord and allows you to stand and bend. Spinal stenosis causes narrowing in your spine. The narrowing can occur at the center of your spine, in the canals branching off your spine and/or between the vertebrae, the bones of the spine. The narrowing puts pressure on your nerves and spinal cord and can cause pain.