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Interspinous Process Spacers for spinal stenosis

Spine Health | Last Active: Mar 18 3:39pm | Replies (26)

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@shar1120

What are the alternatives for spinal stenosis and slipped disc ? So for I have had injections that have helped but they are just temporary

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Try an inversion table.

@shar1120 Sometimes the spine injections are used as a diagnostic because when they do help, it tells the surgeon what may be improved upon by doing surgery. Is your disc herniated? The reason I am asking is because when the jelly like contents of a disc are squished out, it causes inflammation and can cause bone spurs to grow. This can progress rapidly. I saw this on my MRIs and saw them double in 9 months time. It was all pressing into my spinal cord, and the only way to help that by decompressing the spinal cord was surgery.

Since the Minuteman procedure with the interspinous spacer has not helped my pain at all, and the Epidural injections have not helped me - I am going to be seeing my physician regarding having the Spinal Cord Stimulator procedure done.