How Spinal Stenosis can cause symptoms of the Foot - Murari's Healthcare - Mumbai

Spinal stenosis is the narrowing of the spinal canal and its exiting nerve roots due to a variety of reasons. This causes radiating pain in the lower limbs leading upto the foot and ankle.

Due to the severe compression of the spinal cord and its nerve roots, the blood supply to the cord and nerve roots is compromised which causes severe and often debilitating pain which radiated from the lower back to the buttocks and often upto the foot and ankle. This puts a severe physical, social and psychological stress on the patients.

Podiatric physicians, who focus on the patient’s lower extremities, are in a unique position to be able to identify spinal stenosis and facilitate appropriate treatment.

SYMPTOMS :

Symptoms include one or many of the following:-

Radiating pain from lower back upto the uncle.
Tingling sensation or burning sensation in the lower limbs.
Pain and crampy feeling, which gets aggravated upon walking or standing for long hours and get relieved by taking rest.
Burning pain in the feet and legs.
Inability or difficulty walking more than 5-10mins.

CAUSES :-

Various conditions can lead to this problem, some of the most common ones include,

slipped disc, arthritis of the spine, infection, congenitally narrow canal or tumours.

RISK FACTORS :-

Prolonged sitting jobs.
Sedentary lifestyle.
Jobs/work involving lifting weights.
Osteoporosis.

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