I am now recovering from my second herniation, A very severe one 5 years ago at L4-L5 that involved motor loss and took me nearly two years to fully recover from. And a second herniation just over two months ago at the Lumbar sacral junction. Not as serious as the first but still involved numbness and astonishing amounts of pain. I am about 10 weeks into this one and thankfully I am now mostly pain free and think I'm doing OK (famous last words) have even had to go back to work
Both the MRI's that I have had have shown that my spinal canal and formen are "Capacious" My doctor seems to ignore all the bad stuff in my MRIs and instead enthuses over the word Capacious, and likes to tell me how those who have nice big roomy spinal canals usually recover quickly and well.
Now I certainly see the obvious benefits of a capacious canal over a stenosis. But is my doctor correct? do we have any visitors or members of the site who have long term problems who also have MRI's that show Capacious spinal canals?