Question
hello, my name is Shaina. My Father has degenerative disk disease, spinal stenosis, and a bulging disk. He is freaked out because he thinks he is going to have surgery on his back. He has an apointment with a spinal clinic in march. I was wondering if you could tell us how serious his problem is, if he had surgery what would they do, and what the recovery is like? If you can tell us anything about these things it would be a great help.

Answer
Hi Shaina,
Thanks so much for your questions.

Here are a some sites that have the information you are looking for.

These 2 addresses are from the same site and include an overview and a question and answer section.
http://www.spine-health.com/topics/cd/overview/lumbar/old/spinsten01.html

http://www.spine-health.com/topics/cd/spinsten/stenosis/sten01.html

This site has an extensive question and answer section.
http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/spinalstenosis/spinal_sten.htm

This site has a short movie.
http://www.spinenet.com/stenosis.html

I hope this helps you and if you have anymore questions, please feel free to ask me anytime.

Thanks again,
John McKinzie