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Suggest Treatment For Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
If I do some walking for about an hour often my legs go weak and I can hardly walk. I am in pain. I have spinal stenosis in my lower back. Surgery is being placed for fall. Could this just be a symptoms of what I already know I have? Am just worried about ms or something like YYYY@YYYY
Fri, 21 Aug 2015
Yes it is the symptom of spinal stenosis and when nerve is compressed, numbness and weakness are felt along the supply of nerve.
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