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What Is Cervical Stenosis? Cervical spinal stenosis is a medical condition that narrows in the spinal canal in your neck. When this happens, the canal squeezes and compresses your spinal cord, which can have disastrous consequences. It causes debilitating pain, stiffness, numbness, or weakness in your neck and arms. If you have lumbar stenosis, in contrast, you likely feel the effects in your lower back, buttocks and legs. Cervical stenosis differs from other spinal maladies because the damage is within your spinal canal. Most other cervical spine issues involve damage or degradation outside the spinal column. These conditions normally affect root nerves as they exit the spinal column. For example: Cervical radiculopathy, which is a compressed nerve Cervical myelopathy, a compression injury Cervical kyphosis, which causes a hunchback deformity Read more: https://www.nu-spine.com/neck-cervical/cervical-stenosis-surgery-treatment/
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