Spinal Stenosis

Your spinal cord runs through a canal in your spine — protected, enveloped, embedded in bone and ligament. With spinal stenosis, this canal narrows. The space your nerves need shrinks. Pressure builds — on the spinal cord, on nerve roots, on the pathways that carry impulses between brain and body. Pain when walking. Numbness in the legs. A heaviness that increases with every metre. A radius that keeps shrinking.

Orthopedics and neurosurgery know the causes: wear, arthritis, bony overgrowths, thickened ligaments. Age-related, structural, biomechanically traceable. And yet a question remains open that goes beyond the X-ray: why is the space narrowing for you specifically — in a phase in which your inner life may also have grown narrower than it needs to be?

Spinal stenosis is not only a narrowing of the canal, but an image of something in you that can no longer find passage.