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Has anyone dealt successfully with Cervical stenosis without surgery?
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Thank you for your response. I’m waiting to get the MRI scheduled. We’ll know more then.
This is what was written in my cervical X-ray notes. I’d love to hear your thoughts:
FINDINGS/IMPRESSION:
AP, lateral, and oblique views of the cervical spine are provided for review.
No acute fracture.
Vertebral body heights are maintained.
Intervertebral disc heights are normal.
There is worsening anterior spurring spanning C5 and C6.
There is similar uncovertebral joint hypertrophy.
There is worsening, now severe narrowing of the right neuroforamina at C6-C7 secondary to progressing degenerative changes. The remaining levels on the right side have also shown worsening neuroforaminal stenosis.
The left side is stable, with narrowing noted at C6 to C7.
Prevertebral soft tissues are unremarkable.
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@isabelle7 The simple answer is arthritis is affecting your neck. Anterior spurring at the C5/C6 disk means there are bone spurs projecting forward into the spinal canal, and the question is how large are they and is the spinal cord getting touched or compressed by any of this? Bone spurs grow from inflammation around a ruptured disk and because of uneven pressure on the bone of vertebral body. The uncovertebral joints are just kind of bumps on the vertebra bones to the sides of the disks that can touch between the 2 levels. These are only on the neck from C3 and below and those joints have enlarged a bit. You are also getting nerves pinched at the nerve roots which will cause pain to the area served by that particular nerve which is described as severe at C6/C7. This dermatome map explains how nerves leave the nerve root to go to the body. It sounds like you may have a disc rupture that extends into the nerve root area at C6/C7 that is causing bone spur growth there. That's my guess, and an MRI will confirm what is happening. I'm not a medical professional. I did have spinal cord compression from bone spurs in the central canal, but did not have nerve root compression. The good news is your disks are maintaining normal height, but there may be a damaged one.
This explains dermatomes.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24379-dermatomes.