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Alternatives to Cortisone injections for foraminal Stenosis
Spine Health | Last Active: Nov 18, 2024 | Replies (17)Comment receiving replies
@annie1
your sleeping position must be aggravating the stenosis. Which is interesting, very interesting. You might try sleeping with a small pillow under your knees or between your knees if sleeping on you side. If you sleep supine a larger pillow so you form a figure four might help. It could be that the day time activities aggravate your back so that it swells a bit at night aided by gravity which moves the fluids to the lowest part of the body. Ice packs might help too, but it seems like it must be positional aggravation.
Do you have a buldging disc, or spondylolythesis.
Your symptoms sound more like central canal stenosis.
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My physical therapist suggested sleeping on my back, and surprisingly, that seems to help. I have a sleep number bed (set at 50 usually) and have the head elevated to the Snore position (20-30 degrees?). I spent so many years sleeping on my side, that I still sleep part of the night on my side, but if I wake up and roll back on my back, I go right to sleep. Therapist also recommends I do some lumbar stretches in the bed before getting up in the morning, and that helps a lot. I notice a difference in the stiffness if I don't do those first. I change the bed setting to max firm (100) and do a set of 20 gentle side to side of bent knees, flat back--gentle. And 15 pelvic tilts. And 2 x 6 single bent knee to chest exercises, keeping the other leg/knee bent, not flat (previously, I had been told and seen in ex books to keep the other leg flat, but this PT says for lumbar stenosis, to keep the other leg bent at the knee with the foot on the bed, and it feels different/better). These are not meant to be done as strengthening, but rather, as gentle stretches to loosen up before walking around.