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Can you help lift a 100lb elderly person when you have spinal stenosis?
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Yes: If your diagnosis is just spinal stenosis and you are otherwise in good shape, you should be able to assist in this activity unless you are also relatively small or frail that it would hurt you to do so. Most cases of spinal stenosis are not assosciated with loss of strength or significant back pain but may impair your ability if the stenosis is affecting the spinal cord leading to a myleopathy.
Answered 9/28/2016
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