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What Does Narrowing Of Foramen Suggest?
My MRI reads: L5-S1 Small broad based posterior disc herniation with bilateral fact joint degenerative disease. Small lift foramina disc protrusion. Central canal is patent. Mild narrowing of the neural foramen on right. Moderate narrowing of neural foramen on left.What does this muean and how long will it take to heal?
Fri, 22 Apr 2016
hi,
thank you for providing the brief information of the report.
A thorough neuromuscular assessment is advised.
As the report suggest you have degenerative changes in the facet joint - the facet joint is the one which supports one vertebrae over the other and below it.
The L5-S1 disc herniation is noticed - the disc is a soft tissue placed between the two vertebrae, this disc act as a shock absorb-er in the spine. As due to over use of misuse or ageing factor the disc becomes weak and ends into herniation.
So, this report has to be correlated clinically and the symptoms like - tingling, numbness, pain radiating in the leg etc may be present.
Treatment of choice will be simple pain killers and physical therapy. Also, with physical therapy, the optimum strength in the muscles will be attained in 2-3 weeks * based on the extent of the symptoms and soft tissue injury.
In my clinical experience , i see cases with such injuries and they recover well with 99% success rate.
Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel
thank you for providing the brief information of the report.
A thorough neuromuscular assessment is advised.
As the report suggest you have degenerative changes in the facet joint - the facet joint is the one which supports one vertebrae over the other and below it.
The L5-S1 disc herniation is noticed - the disc is a soft tissue placed between the two vertebrae, this disc act as a shock absorb-er in the spine. As due to over use of misuse or ageing factor the disc becomes weak and ends into herniation.
So, this report has to be correlated clinically and the symptoms like - tingling, numbness, pain radiating in the leg etc may be present.
Treatment of choice will be simple pain killers and physical therapy. Also, with physical therapy, the optimum strength in the muscles will be attained in 2-3 weeks * based on the extent of the symptoms and soft tissue injury.
In my clinical experience , i see cases with such injuries and they recover well with 99% success rate.
Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel
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