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Spinal Stenosis: Causes and How to Treat It Without Surgery



Do you have trouble standing up straight due to pain, or difficulty walking even short distances before you have to stop and sit because it hurts so much?

If so, you might have a condition called spinal stenosis. In this video, Dr. Rowe goes over the signs and symptoms of spinal stenosis, and shares two effective treatments to help relieve pain.

Dr. Michael Rowe, DC
St. Joseph MI chiropractor

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28 COMMENTS

  1. I have sciatica from spinal stenosis and it freaking sucks. I get steroid injections which help the best. For me, annoyed with the whole thing. I am only 44 and life sucks with it.

  2. Hi Dr. Rowe saw your video on spinal stenosis. I have a L5 and S1 disc bulge according to my MRI that has caused chronic pinky toe numbness with no relief. Is there a non-surgical way to treat this and possibly reverse some of the numbness after 4 years. Do you have recommendations as I live in florida.

  3. Amazing – the causes you give for getting SS are so not me, yet I have it. I've been a weight trainer/body builder since I was 27. I'm now 75 and still lifting weights, albeit much lighter. Definitely not sedentary. I don't really have pain from it either, although I've noticed some numbness on the bottom of my feet. (no, not diabetic either) I do have an L4 & 5 problem so could that have caused it?

  4. I have spinal canal
    Stenosis in lumbar region L5S1 with 2 mm space. I can walk only for 5 to 7 min and feel numbness and pain in my glutes. Doctor has suggested surgery but I am going for advanced physio therapy. Its doing great for me but the nerve pain is aggravating at times. Can these exercises help?

  5. You are naive and misleading. Physical therapy becomes worthless when a complex bony structure chokes a soft tissue, like nerves. I am a physician and a central spinal stenosis sufferer, so I speak from experience.

  6. Hi I've had spinal stenosis since my back surgery in 2005 I was wondering if there is any doctors or someone I could speak to I have some questions and all the doctors in my area don't seem to want to help me out and I'm at a loss I just don't know what to do

  7. At last i have a diagnosis for numbness and pins and needles down my arm, despite intense neck therapy working on C6 nerve by a chiropractor which achieved nothing ive finally found the problem and it makes sense as a scan on my lower spine 5 years ago revealed damaged discs causing sciatica…i never knew that damaged lower discs cause arm/ shoulder issues….wish your company was in the UK…. thank you.

  8. I got hit hard about 5 months ago. L5 —herniated disk. Then sciatica pain for many months —couldn’t walk or stand up in one position for more than 2 seconds before had to sit down. Worst feeling in my life; I have been active all my life but this winter where I live—it was brutal so did a lot sitting and reading more than moving. Problem # 1. MRI showed stenosis. I was able to rehab myself back to waking again but not normal at all. I can’t hike or mt bike (yet). The more I walk —the more I realize it does nothing to help my clautication at the knee/ calf to achillias back of foot. I also have peripheral neuropathy in both feet —for 24 years now. I can walk straighter but still have a small, almost unnoticeable limp on the bad side of body. My gait is slow but at times, I can walk like normal but then all,of a sudden, I feel heavy again and legs weak. But I keep moving —3 x a day for 25 minutes each. I drink a gallon of water a day, eat very healthy, no alcohol and sleep 6 solid hours a night. That said —I’ve tried chiropractor now because all of sudden, I developed a frozen shoulder. What thr heck. Ontop of everything else —I have a shoulder issue and it hurts like hell. Well, that’s finally better but may take a long time to heal. I realize now —surgery is inevitable for me. They can do a lamenchoty and cut away the stenosis allowing my nerve room so it doesn’t cripple me anymore. It’s really an easy procedure from what I read. But I’m done. I’m ready to get my life back. Hope this helps. Also I pray a lot for others and this helps take my situation off me. I have to think of others who have it worse than me. God bless all

  9. Well may I say I've been getting shots for an hour of a spine with bulging disc my legs still get heavy and it's and it's still hard to walk I get numb I get tingly my buttocks hurt and hurts in between my legs I can't open my legs good if I want to you know in the bedroom and I constantly tell that to him and I'm done the upper door shots do not work and I don't know what else to do

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