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stenosis, a narrowing of a opening, either spinal cord or nerve off of spinal cord, either way, not a good prognosis.

Adjunct therapies, aka Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Massage, PT, just bandaid care.

IMHO, get mister pacman to go in there and clean it out, pain gone function back. The ortho's have got micro-surgery down to a fine art, a few pin holes in the back, one for mister pacman and the other for light, camera. Day surgery, done deal.