Spinal stenosis.
When walking your dog has become the longest walk you take.
A narrowed spinal canal compresses the nerves traveling through it. The hallmark is leg pain or weakness with walking and standing that improves when you sit or lean on a cart.
If this is you, we can help.
Pain, heaviness, or fatigue in the legs and buttocks that comes on with walking and standing. Relief when you sit down or lean forward over a shopping cart. Numbness, tingling, or weakness in the legs that progresses through the day. A shorter and shorter walking distance over months or years.
Your first visit.
A focused neurologic and gait examination. Review of imaging — usually MRI — to identify the location, severity, and contributing structures (bony, ligamentous, or both). A discussion of the tradeoffs between conservative care, minimally invasive options, and formal decompression. The goal is to restore walking tolerance — what walking distance, on what terrain, with what relief between attempts.
A staged plan from conservative to definitive.
Start with focused physical therapy, activity modification, and pharmacotherapy where appropriate. Add image-guided epidural injections at the affected levels. For ligamentous stenosis with neurogenic claudication that has plateaued, the MILD procedure or a Vertiflex spacer can open the canal without bone removal or fusion. For severe central or foraminal stenosis with progressive symptoms, formal decompression — with or without fusion — remains the definitive option.
Stop accepting the downtime.
Get the walking distance back. Schedule a consultation at any Triumph location.