The spinal canal is the canal where the spinal cord and nerves coming out of the spinal cord travel within the vertebral bones. As a result of many factors such as trauma, abuse of the body, genetic factors, thickening and coarsening of the soft tissue and bone structures that make up the spinal canal can cause narrowing in this canal. As a result, compression occurs in the nerve roots.
These patients complain of pain and numbness in the calf, especially when standing for a long time and walking. When they sit and lean forward, the pain symptoms are relieved or gone. This clinical picture that occurs with standing or walking is called “neurogenic claudication”.
TREATMENT
In the treatment, the compressed nerves and spinal cord are released by opening the canal stenosis (by performing laminectomy and foraminotomies).
Sometimes the spines are fixed with screws (platinum) against the possibility of the spines slipping in patients
