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What increases my risk for cervical spinal stenosis?
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Disc diease: Arthritis, some time having infection and tumors in that area.
Answered 7/1/2022
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Smoking family hx: Smoking is a risk of increased degenerative changes which can lead to spinal stenosis as is a strong family history of arthritis or back issues. Certain syndromes are associated with spinal stenosis.
Answered 2/2/2014
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Arthritis: It is typically an arthritic condition and so often the worse the arthritis, the worse the stenosis.
Answered 6/2/2017
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