Foraminotomy

The patient was a 47-year-old woman who presented with symptoms of lower back pain. Upon physical examination, the patient reported stiffness, throbbing, and spasms in her lumbar spine (or lower back). When Dr. Frazier examined the patient’s legs, he discovered tightness in her hamstrings and weakness in her right and left legs.

A particularly debilitating condition, spinal stenosis affects thousands and thousands of sufferers every year. Although possible with injury, spinal stenosis falls within a broad set of degenerative disorders that doctors link to aging.

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