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anyone familiar with stenosis?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lothlorien" data-source="post: 106134" data-attributes="member: 1024"><p>I work for an ortho...</p><p></p><p>Stenosis is indeed narrowing of the spinal canal. This is degenerative in nature, so most likely this was and has been there a long time, but was aggravated by the accident. You should probably get some recommendations for a pain management specialist (BOARD CERTIIFIED) and get the low down on him before you go. She may do fine with epidural steroid injections. The lessen the inflammation, causing less pain. Before discussing surgery, this should be tried first. She may need an EMG/nerve conduction study first.</p><p></p><p>Just want to let you know, docs get about $1500 bucks for doing one epidural injection that takes him 15 minutes to do. This is more than an ortho gets for doing a hip replacement that might take 3 hours to do. There are docs that love to do multiple injections on patients for the money. Three is the standard. If after three, no improvement is seen, then further injections will not work. Don't let a doctor talk her into further. I can quote the medical journals for you, if you need.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lothlorien, post: 106134, member: 1024"] I work for an ortho... Stenosis is indeed narrowing of the spinal canal. This is degenerative in nature, so most likely this was and has been there a long time, but was aggravated by the accident. You should probably get some recommendations for a pain management specialist (BOARD CERTIIFIED) and get the low down on him before you go. She may do fine with epidural steroid injections. The lessen the inflammation, causing less pain. Before discussing surgery, this should be tried first. She may need an EMG/nerve conduction study first. Just want to let you know, docs get about $1500 bucks for doing one epidural injection that takes him 15 minutes to do. This is more than an ortho gets for doing a hip replacement that might take 3 hours to do. There are docs that love to do multiple injections on patients for the money. Three is the standard. If after three, no improvement is seen, then further injections will not work. Don't let a doctor talk her into further. I can quote the medical journals for you, if you need. [/QUOTE]
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