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Cervical (neck) stenosis is usually treated with surgery. Lumbar spinal stenosis may be treated nonoperatively, such as with physical therapy and/or epidural steroid injections; however, recent studies in the New England Journal of Medicine indicate that surgery for lumbar stenosis is more successful than nonoperative treatment.
