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Lumbar Stenosis May Not Be the Cause of Your Lower Back Pain
If you are experiencing pain in your lower back, it is easy to assume that the symptoms are a result of a spinal condition such as lumbar stenosis or sciatica. However, in order to properly diagnose your condition and find an effective treatment plan, you and your physician should explore all the possible causes of lower back pain.
Alternate Causes of Discomfort
Some common ailments that contribute to lower back pain include herniated discs, bulging discs, lumbar stenosis, bone spurs, and spondylolisthesis, among others. However, what about health problems that cause pain in the lumbar (lower) spine, but do not originate there? Below are a few possibilities:
- Muscle strain and ligament sprain
- Kidney stones
- Tumors
- Prostate problems
- Depression
- Paget’s disease
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Treating Lumbar Stenosis
Before treatment can begin, your physician should do a full physical exam, ask you questions about the location and severity of your pain, and perform an MRI or CT scan so that the above conditions can be ruled out before a diagnosis of lumbar stenosis is arrived at. Next, you will likely be prompted to begin a regimen of non-surgical treatment for your spinal stenosis pain, which may include stretching, low-impact exercise, behavior modification, pain medication, and steroid injections.
About 90% of patients will find relief from stenosis of the spine within three to five months after starting conservative treatments. For the remainder of patients whose back pain develops into severe stenosis, surgery may become an option. If this is the case, consider the outpatient, endoscopic procedures from Laser Spine Institute (LSI). Our minimally invasive techniques allow for greatly expedited recovery periods, without the risks and stress of traditional, open spine operations.
Please note: Laser Spine Institute currently does not perform endoscopic procedures on the thoracic spine.
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