Treatment for Spinal Stenosis

Spinal Stenosis

Spinal stenosis is the medical name for what happens when the spaces between the spine begin to narrow, which in turn place pressure on your spine as well as the nerves that travel through and around the spine. Although it may occur in the middle region of the back, also known as the thoracic section, spinal stenosis most often develops in the cervical and lumbar regions of the spine.

Some back pain sufferers may show spinal stenosis on x-rays but experience no physical symptoms, while others experience mild to severe pain radiating throughout the back. Strangely enough some patients even experience numbness in the neck, arms, legs, back and buttocks. In the most severe cases of spinal stenosis patients have reported an interruption in normal bladder and bowel movements.

Since older people are the population most often diagnosed with spinal stenosis, it is important that these symptoms are not dismissed as signs of aging. Adolescents and young adults may also receive a spinal stenosis diagnosis if a tumor, injury or bone overgrowth is discovered. With early diagnosis and treatment, the progression of spinal stenosis may be slowed, and reversed in some cases.

What causes spinal stenosis

Spinal stenosis is most commonly attributed to osteoarthritis-related bone damage, but a number of other conditions may constrict the spinal canal including a herniated disc, scar tissue build up, inflammation or even a tumor. In fairly rare cases spinal stenosis can be caused genetically in which case it is already present at birth as opposed to acquired later in life.

Like most health conditions, spinal stenosis is best dealt with through prevention rather than corrective actions after diagnosis. Fortunately many of the preventative steps you can take can also help reduce symptoms of the condition and even relieve the constriction itself depending on the cause.

How to naturally treat – or prevent – spinal stenosis

If you already are experiencing pain from spinal stenosis, you will need to experiment to find what you can tolerate and what treatments work best for you. Surgery may become a a required option for some, but should rarely be necessary if you first use these symptomatic and condition helping natural therapies:

  • Heat therapy, or ice and heat together, can break the pain-spasm cycle. Saunas, hot tubs, or far infrared heat also help improve circulation to bring more healing oxygen and nutrients to injured areas of the spine.
  • Proteolytic enzyme therapy offers a safer solution to the problem of inflammation than offered by over the counter NSAIDs like ibuprofen or prescription medicines. Inflammation is almost always present with pain, and may be the actual cause of your spinal stenosis.
  • Trigger point therapy provides a mechanism to self-treat tiny yet painful muscle knots almost always present along with spinal stenosis.
  • Muscle balance therapy gets to the source of many spinal conditions which are postural dysfunctions caused by muscle imbalances.
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Jesse Cannone, CFT, CPRS, MFT

Jesse is the co-founder and visionary CEO of The Healthy Back Institute®, the world-leading source of natural back pain solutions. His mission as a former back pain sufferer is to help others live pain free without surgery and pharmaceuticals.

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6 thoughts on “Treatment for Spinal Stenosis”

  1. tom parker says:

    jesse, thank you for your evergoing help skits, i appreciate them all, –tom

  2. Rich says:

    Hello, I just wanted to say how accurate and precise your information is. I suffer from a lot of different aches and pains, one of those is back pain. I’m presently on Naproxen and been having good success with that.

  3. frank says:

    I have spinalstenosis do to operation in 1957.What would be the exercise to reduce the problems.I am 83 years old and I do yoga chi gong etc.but I would like to do more specific for my problem.Frank

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  5. I suffer from spinal stenosis which seems to give me cronic lumbar pain. I have been using the Nubax for over a month and have not gotten good results. I am also taking the heal-n-soothe supplement, again with no good results. please advise

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