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To understand what it means to have congenital spinal stenosis, first it helps to have a general knowledge of what spinal stenosis is and how it develops over time. As you age, it’s natural for your spinal canal to experience some narrowing. Bone spurs grow, discs bulge, ligaments thicken – all of these issues and more begin to take up space in your spinal canal. Eventually, this narrowing can press upon surrounding tissues and nerves, causing pain and other symptoms.

For a person with congenital spinal stenosis, however, spinal stenosis symptoms can start much earlier. If you are born with a narrow spinal canal, even the slightest age-related changes can result in spinal stenosis symptoms. People with the congenital, or inherited, form of spinal stenosis may have symptoms in their 40s, 30s, 20s, or even earlier.

Between two adjacent Vertebrae , there is a disc which is held in position by tenacious ligaments.Disc material is "rubbery" in consistency. The Disc acts as a "shock absorber" between each Vertebral Body and lies in front of the Spinal Canal.During lifting or bending injury this disc got protruded and extruded and cause pressure over nerve root and causing pain, numbness and parasthesia in distribution of that nerve.

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There are several treatment modalities with medicines, physiotherapy and with injections in the back called epidural injections and root/facet blocks.

The medications like anti-inflammatory drugs and muscle relaxants will relieve pain and help muscles to relax.

Physiotherapy shall also help a lot, especially exercises that strengthen your back.Often, the muscles in your lower back and buttocks become tight in response to the disc herniation. This typically can be alleviated by stretching exercises . Kindly note that exercises should only be done when it doesn't hurt.

You can start with swimming and mild aerobic exercises. These do help a lot in the back pain. Adequate rest and proper nutrition is equally important. Drink lots of fluids since dehydration affects the disc.

If you dont get better with these treatment , surgery is advisable, by which the nerves are decompressed by removing the protruded disc (discectomy), which would significantly improve your symptoms.

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Wishing you good health...

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Dr Saurabh Gupta.
Orthopaedic Surgeon.

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