Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spine. When the spine space decreases, this in turn puts pressure on the nerves passing through the spinal canal. Most commonly this is found in the neck and lower back.
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Chronic pain is so difficult to diagnose. Often it is a process of trial and error, testing and continually trying to describe your pain. But how do you explain pain to your doctor, in order to help them understand how your pain is different?
Medical history — injury, treatment, procedures — can only tell a doctor so much about the pain you should be experiencing. But, with chronic pain, the pain is different…and hard to explain concisely. Yet it is incredibly important that you describe the pain as accurately and descriptively as possible.
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There are over 3 million cases of chronic pain in the United States each year. So what exactly is pain? Pain is defined as acute or chronic. Acute pain can be a sudden, mild pain that lasts only a moment or it can be severe pain that resolves over a few weeks or a few months. Chronic pain is continuous pain that lasts longer than 6 months. The key is that acute pain is pain that goes away, chronic pain usually does not.
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