More serious health problems include Stenotic nares, elongated soft palate, and intervertebral disc deterioration.

As her symptoms were not improving with treatment of her reflux laryngitis and allergies, the patient elected to have surgical resection of the stenotic lesion.

In the end, as a result of the natural aging process, gravity's influence, or of the physical demands of our lives, our ligaments are loose, the discs are deflated, the bones are experiencing high frictional rubbing against one another, and in severe cases the crowding of structures around the nerve channels becomes stenotic and strictured.