What are the symptoms of spinal stenosis?
Symptoms of Lumbar Stenosis • Dull ache and tenderness to electric or burning sensation • Pain worsens with standing, walking or walking downhill • Pain alleviates with bending slightly forward, leaning, sitting or walking uphill • Sciatica • Heavy feeling in legs • Sensation of ‘pins-and-needles’ in foot, leg or buttocks • Loss of bladder and bowel control Symptoms of Cervical Stenosis • Neck pain • Sensation of ‘pins-and-needles’ in arm, hand, leg, foot or anywhere in body below the point of nerve compression • Weakness in arm, hand, leg, foot or anywhere in body below the point of nerve compression • Loss of balance • Loss of function in hands • Loss of bladder or bowel control Symptoms of Thoracic Stenosis • Pain • Numbness • Tingling • Weakness All below the point of nerve compression • Problems with balance.