My lumbar intervertebral disc herniation is very serious and my life is very affected. How can I recover from many hospitals without results?

        In life, we can often see that our friends and relatives around us have symptoms such as lumbar pain due to overwork, trauma, improper posture or accompanied by pain, numbness and weakness of the lower limbs. Are these all problems of lumbar disc herniation? Are there symptoms?

　　First, we need to understand what is lumbar disc herniation

　　 First of all, we need to know what is the lumbar intervertebral disc. The intervertebral disc is the soft cushion between the two vertebral bones of the spine. It is composed of the outer fibrous annulus and the central nucleus pulposus. It has the functions of maintaining the height of the spine, cushioning shocks, and protecting the spinal nerves.

        Due to external force or repeated activities, the annulus fibrosis will rupture, and the nucleus pulposus will protrude to oppress the nerves, resulting in nerve abnormalities such as soreness, numbness and weakness. This is lumbar disc herniation.

　　 Lumbar disc herniation ≠ lumbar disc herniation. Many people in our lives do not have low back pain or symptoms of lower limbs to check the CT or MRi of the lumbar intervertebral disc. They will also have herniated problems, but they do not have any symptoms of discomfort.

　　 Therefore, it is necessary to strictly discriminate the disease in clinical practice, and it should not be regarded as lumbar disc herniation because of back pain or leg pain.

　　 Typical patients with lumbar disc herniation have low back pain and lower limb nerve symptoms. The clinical manifestations are low back pain, radiating pain, numbness, and weakness of the lower limbs, and cauda equina symptoms such as dysfunction of urine and bowel, and paraesthesia of sellar area.

　　 Why do lumbar disc herniation appear so frequently

　　 First is the degeneration of the disc. Due to age or external violence or repeated exercise, the intervertebral disc degeneration and rupture, annulus fibrosus rupture, nucleus pulposus protruding, repeated stimulation of nerves, the symptoms persist.

　　Second, the main reason is that we do not pay attention to protecting the intermediary disk. Frequent repeated bending activities, twisting the waist to speed up the injury of the disc.

　　Third, bad lifestyles, such as long-term desk work, improper sitting posture, etc.

　　 These factors cause the patient's symptoms to be good or bad, which will occur from time to time, which has always affected the quality of life.

　　 got lumbar disc herniation, how do we treat it?

　　 The questioner said that treatment in many hospitals was ineffective, which is a bit surprising. Lumbar disc herniation is a very common degenerative disease of the spine. It is not an intractable disease. Didn't you go to a regular hospital?

　　 Let me talk about how we usually treat such diseases.

        First of all, we still recommend that patients first standardize conservative treatment in regular hospitals for at least three months.

　　 1. Improve bad posture and bad habits, and lie on a hard bed or a harder bed.

　　2. In the acute phase, it can be treated with infusion, and the inflammation of nerve root can be relieved by intravenous activating blood and analgesic drugs, nourishing nerve drugs, and nerve detumescence drugs.

　　3. The combination of acupuncture, massage, bone setting, traction, intermediate frequency pulsed electricity, infrared and other traditional Chinese medicine techniques and modern physical therapy techniques.

　　 4. It can be treated by oral Chinese medicine, external fumigation, and plaster application.

　　 5. Strengthen the back muscles and lower limbs rehabilitation exercises. You can swim, practice yoga, Baduan Jin, five-point support Xiaoyanfei, hang horizontal bars, support parallel bars and other sports.

　　 Finally, if there is really no effect after conservative treatment, and the patient’s symptoms are still more obvious, surgical treatment needs to be considered.

　　 includes intervertebral foraminal mirror, laminectomy, decompression and nucleus pulposus removal, etc.