Spinal stenosis happens to many of us in mild or more severe forms as we age because the discs in our spines dehydrate, causing them to budge into the spinal canal, narrowing the space for nerves.

It also showed “mild left and moderate-to-severe right neural foraminal stenosis; ... That’s the distribution of the L5 and S1 nerves. The MRI shows spinal stenosis at this level.

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