Learn about the types of spinal stenosis surgery and when doctors might recommend the treatment. This article also looks at benefits, risks, recovery, and more.

Surgery for spinal stenosis of the neck aims to relieve compression and improve symptoms. Spinal stenosis is a compression of nerves in the spine. The condition most commonly affects the lumbar ...

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Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 90-year-old woman, and I consider myself reasonably healthy, except for one problem. I have severe lumbar spinal stenosis. For a number of years, I’ve been receiving an ...

BALTIMORE — Spinal stenosis can be a very painful condition, one that can become so bad it requires surgery. Nytha Glass, of Laurel, is usually a busy woman who likes to travel, but she said her ...

Researchers found rates for the use of decompression with fusion increased from 67.4% in 2016 to 90.4% in 2019, while rates of decompression alone decreased from 32.6% in 2016 to 9.6% in 2019.

Medicare may cover a specific surgical form of spinal decompression called percutaneous image-guided lumbar decompression (PILD) to treat lumbar spinal stenosis.