When thoracic spinal stenosis is mild, symptoms usually do not occur. In severe cases, clinical symptoms vary greatly depending on the cause of the disease. It is treated mainly with medication and surgery.
Common symptoms may include sinking, stiffness, weakness, unsteady walking, widespread numbness and pain in one or both lower limbs; intermittent claudication of spinal cord origin; dysfunction of urinary and bowel functions or sexual dysfunction; a feeling of girdling in the chest and abdomen; and radiating pain in the chest or abdominal wall along the distribution of the intercostal nerves.
Treatment of thoracic spinal stenosis: medication includes painkillers, commonly used drugs such as parecoxib sodium, etc.; nutritive nerve drugs, commonly used drugs such as methylcobalamin, etc.; surgical treatment includes: unilateral approach bilateral decompression with full visualization endoscopy, decompression of the whole hemiarticular laminectomy, lateral anterior decompression, thickening of the laminar synovial process with disc herniation resection, and corrective decompression of thoracic kyphosis.
If relevant symptoms occur, they should be consulted promptly.