What is Spinal Stenosis?
“What is spinal stenosis?” is one of the most frequently asked questions in any spinal physician’s office. Spinal stenosis is a common back problem, but many affected patients have never heard of it...
View ArticleWhat is Laminoplasty?
Laminoplasty is a surgical procedure for treating spinal stenosis, an unnatural narrowing of the spinal canal and a common cause of mild to severe lower back pain and restricted mobility. A variety of...
View ArticleWhat is the X-Stop procedure?
X-Stop is a minimally invasive spinal surgery procedure that may be performed to treat cases of lumbar spinal stenosis that don’t respond to more conservative treatments, such as physical therapy and...
View ArticleWhat is Interspinous Process Fusion?
As we noted in our last blog, X-Stop, an implant deployed in the surgical treatment of mild spinal stenosis, was approved by the FDA in 2005 as a safe and effective treatment for symptoms of lumbar...
View ArticleWhat Causes Back Pain?
Ancient medical experts believed back pain was brought on by a fluid imbalance. Many patients were therefore treated with bloodletting. Today we know that back pain can have a variety of causes. Muscle...
View ArticleCan Acupuncture Relieve Back Pain?
Not all advances in treating spinal disorders are necessarily new. Acupuncture has been practiced for thousands of years, and researchers and medical experts have now established that this ancient...
View ArticleWhat is Claudication?
Its name sounds complex, but the condition is very basic: Claudication is a pain, typically in the legs, caused by too little blood flow through the blood vessels during exercise. Claudication can...
View ArticleWhat is Lumbar Spinal Stenosis?
Spinal stenosis – one of the most common spinal conditions – is an abnormal narrowing of the spinal canal. (“Stenosis” refers to a narrowing, or constriction.) As the spinal canal progressively narrows...
View ArticleRecovering from Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Lumbar spinal stenosis, a common medical problem, denotes an unnatural narrowing of the spinal canal, the center of the spinal column housing the spinal nerves that relay sensorial information to the...
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