Treatment of stenosis without surgery

The treatment of spinal canal stenosis focuses on the relief of the spinal column. In principle, special attention should be paid to ensuring that the spine is not bent too much into a hollow back during everyday activities. Even physiotherapy, massages or simple heat treatment can effectively help to relieve the strain on heavily loaded sections of the spine.

A doctor can also prescribe medication to relieve the pain. In some cases, muscle-relaxing agents can lead to an improvement in the symptoms. Cortisone therapy can also be helpful in a few cases, as it causes the inflamed sections of the spinal canal to swell.

Often, however, the drugs are not a permanent solution, as they can cause severe side effects.If the spinal canal is so narrowed that a nerve root has become inflamed, additional injections by means of syringes may be considered. Local anesthetics are injected into the area around the nerve root to relieve the pain. Additionally, a cortisone preparation can be injected to relieve the possible inflammation of the nerve root. Which therapy is the most suitable will be decided in consultation with the doctor. Only if all these measures show no effect, an operation is considered.

Is a stenosis curable without surgery?

Spinal canal stenosis is a wear and tear disease that increases with age. The spinal canal is narrowed by bony outgrowths or worn discs. Within the spinal canal (also known as the spinal canal) runs the spinal cord and nerves that run to all areas of the body.

These nerves can come under pressure due to the narrowing of the spinal canal and become inflamed. This ultimately leads to pain and discomfort for those affected. Whether a spinal canal stenosis can be cured without surgery depends on the cause.

In most cases, however, conservative treatment with painkillers, physiotherapy or physical treatment can effectively improve the symptoms. If the cause lies in the wear and tear of the intervertebral discs, which ultimately exert pressure on the nerves in the spinal canal, the triggered pain can be treated by conservative treatment (medication, etc.) and thus the pain can be relieved, but this does not treat the actual trigger.

Therefore, pain usually occurs again and again when the painkiller is discontinued. However, if the cause of the narrowing of the spinal canal is an inflammatory process, an effective, permanently pain-relieving and healing treatment can be achieved by means of cortisone therapy, if necessary. The cortisol, which can be taken orally or by injection, causes the inflammation to subside, thereby “widening” the spinal canal again, so that no more pressure is exerted on the spinal cord and the exiting nerves. This topic might also be of interest to you:

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