Spinal stenosis symptoms are common, like leg pain while walking or standing up in a straight position.But first,what is Spinal Stenosis? The word „stenosis“ origins from the Greek and means „choking“ but spinal stenosis has nothing to do with choking. There is lumbar stenosis and cervical stenosis. Lumbar spinal stenosis occurs much more often. Symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis are compressed or choked nerves in the lower back. In rare cases, lumbar stenosis can go no further than to produce severe persistent disabling pain and even weakness in the legs.

Cervical stenosis is much more serious and involves the compression of the spinal cord. Symptoms of cervical stenosis are body weakness or even paralysis. These symptoms can be an arterial or circulatory insufficiency or it occurs from spinal stenosis. Leg pain from arterial or circulatory insufficiency will go away with ease, but if you have spinal stenosis symptoms you have to sit down for a few minutes to rest your leg. It comes regularly with lower back pain. Leg pain from vascular claudication will go away if the sufferer just stops walking.

But sometimes the pain in the leg and spinal stenosis symptoms will be acute, normally these symptoms will spread over the course of a few years. The more a sufferer with spinal stenosis stands or walks, the worse the pain in his leg will become.

Bending forward or sitting will ease up the spinal canal and will release the hurting leg and other symptoms, but the pain will be back if the patient gets back in a straight position. Numbness and tickling will be an addition to the pain, but actual weakness is a sole spinal stenosis symptom.

An old man bending over his shopping cart while he is making weak steps often has spinal stenosis.

How to diagnose spinal stenosis? I will tell you. You can diagnose cervical stenosis or lumbar stenosis with an MRI scan or a CT scan with myelogram(while running an xray dye in the spinal sack fluid), and occasionally. CT scans who are plain or not enhanced are of low value unless they are made with a really fome segemtal scam slice.

It has been noticed that every form of spinal stenosis changing effects on nerve compression, like when lifting weight. Because of this dynamic compression, spinal stenosis symptoms will change from time to time and the physically examination normally will see any neurological defect or motor illness. Latest scanning methods will allow the straight body position to study the effects of spinal loading.

Cervical foraminal stenosis can be shown not only by the CT or MRI scans, but by putting the little volume of about 2 dozen drops of local anesthetic into the suspicious nerve. After the injection the pain will be weaker when walking along with a temporary weakness of the limb.

Spinal Stenosis Symptoms – a small overview of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Symptoms: Lumbar Spinal Stenosis is often characterized as developing slowly a period of time.It comes and goes,as opposed to recurring pain.It comes up during certain activities(like walking)and/or other postures like standing up straight.It’s relieved by sitting or lying and/or an forward position(like bended over a shopping cart)