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What helps spinal stenosis besides surgery?
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What worries me? The removal of 3 levels of the spinous processes and thus the low back support that it provides.. How many levels has your 80 year old cousin had removed? Usually when you get one level removed it affects the next lower level etc. which usually requires fusion or some type of low back support such as Co flex....With 3 levels I do not believe anything exists that I am aware of. Probably need to get other opinions.
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@pablo81 Are you thinking about disc removal? A laminectomy does not remove the disc which is the round cushion between each vertebrae, so those remain to support the spine. It just removes some bone that is around the spinal cord from the back side of the spine which does remove the spineous process that sticks out to the back.
Here is an explanation of a laminectomy. If you click on the illustrations, they will get larger so you can see them better.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/laminectomy/about/pac-20394533
I think my cousin had one level affected, and he recovered very quickly from a lumbar laminectomy.