Causes of spinal stenosis

The pain occurs due to a narrowing of the spinal canal through which the nerve passes. Changing your position may help.

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The signs of spinal stenosis

The main symptoms of spinal stenosis are: pain in the spine, hips, buttocks and/or legs when walking or climbing stairs; the pain disappears with no movement or while sitting.

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Is your back pain caused by stenosis?

Pain when walking a certain distance which relieves quite quickly when you sit down is a common presentation of this type of pain.

This man I worked with recently was able to triple his walking distance with a very simple change. He walked further than he had walked in years.

https://backtocomfort.substack.com/p/from-walker-to-freedom-a-veterans-story?r=2m1uay

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Having one of those days where not only is my pain high but my frustration is nearly as high.

It's been 3 years since my #shingles outbreak that led to the #phn #neuralgia that has caused me pain 100% of the time since;

It's been 15 months since a pinched nerve led to diagnoses of #foraminal #stenosis #degenerativediskdisease & resulting peripheral #neuropathy.

It's a day where I need to shout into a void that I am fucking sick of this & am not coping well atm. Sorry to rant but I needed to.

That awkward moment when you're trying to gradually return to work because your #chronicpain is slowly improving & your doctor says "There is no way I am sending you back to work now. Take four more weeks of medical leave and then we'll reassess."

Then that awkward internalized moment of simultaneous relief & guilt that the #capitalist ethic imposes even while your hand use is so limited.

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