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Anyone have cervical stenosis and scapular instability?

Spine Health | Last Active: Aug 20 8:58am | Replies (9)

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@jenniferhunter

@nhbfan EMG's detect when a muscle does not receive nerve impulses or receives an abnormal pattern of nerve impulses. If stenosis is at the nerve roots, a dermatome map shows where those nerves go in the body. Here is an explanation.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/22278-cervical-spine
If stenosis is in the central spinal canal, it is hard to tell which nerves are affected below that level, but that can be general things. I do know that cervical spine issues cause muscle spasms in the neck in muscles which also connects to the scapula, so I think you can feel pain there. I did with my C5/C6 central canal stenosis. I didn't have any nerve root stenosis.

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Thanks, Jennifer

The osteophyte that's causing my C4/5 spinal canal stenosis is also likely causing my foraminal stenosis according to MRI interpretations.

I may have misspoke using root stenosis referring to foraminal stenosis.