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The words spinal stenosis have a Greek origin. The word “stenosis” means “choking.” Spinal, of course, means spine. So spinal stenosis is a choking (or narrowing) of the spine canal. While anything that narrows the spinal canal (e.g., a disc herniation) will create stenosis, conventionally when “spinal stenosis” is used as a diagnosis, it refers to a predominance of the stenosis originating from the posterior elements (e.g., facet joint arthropathy, buckled ligamentum flavum) although there is often an element of disc herniation contributing to the stenosis.
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Cooper, G. (2015). Spinal Stenosis. In: Non-Operative Treatment of the Lumbar Spine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21443-6_12
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