Lumbar Decompression Surgery is a treatment for spinal stenosis (narrowing of the spinal canal).

Spinal stenosis is narrowing of the spinal canal, which may result in pressure on the internal structures. Vague leg pain, numbness, and tingling distributed over the anterior and posterior thighs and calves are brought on, classically, by spinal postures that mechanically compromise the neural canal and foramina (openings for nerves). Less often, this syndrome is precipitated by the increased...