Younger people with a spine injury or a narrow spinal canal are also at risk.
He was the first person to describe the spinal canal.
Open surgery might be done to replace the fragments which have entered the spinal canal.
Discs between the bones may be pushed backward into the spinal canal.
I mean it's quite a ways down in the spinal canal.
This may be done to see whether a disc or a cancer is bulging into the spinal canal.
It can also show whether any part of the spinal canal has narrowed.
The spinal canal runs through the spine and provides nerves to the rest of the body.
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These conditions can lead to problems that narrow the space in the spinal canal.