Low back pain should be treated early and aggressively

Although the process of lumbar degeneration and aging and even strain cannot be resisted, the clinical symptoms resulting from lumbar degeneration and aging and even strain can be prevented. Reasonable preventive health care measures can delay or postpone the degeneration and aging process of the lumbar spine. Early detection and early treatment of lumbar pain is very important, and the effect of treatment at the early stage of onset is very obvious. In terms of symptoms, the development of lumbar pain is roughly divided into three stages: early after a long period of intense bending work, you can feel the fatigue and soreness of the lower back, at this time, as long as you pay attention to proper rest and relaxation, emotional optimism, it is easy to restore the original ease, so that the symptoms disappear completely. If the aforementioned symptoms are not noticed and the lesion develops further, symptoms such as muscle spasm in the low back and stiffness in the lumbar region can appear. At this time, although early degenerative changes may have occurred in the lumbar spine, serious non-surgical treatment can still delay the progression of degenerative lesions; and it can also alleviate the inflammatory changes produced by local tissue stimulation from lesions such as lumbar spurs, herniated discs, and intervertebral instability. Correct and reliable proper treatment will lead to rapid relief of symptoms, and together with proper rest and back muscle exercise and correction of walking and sitting posture, recurrence of symptoms can be prevented. If the low back pain enters the late stage, the increased density of osteophytes, fibrosis or calcification of the protruding discs, narrowing of the spinal canal and compression of the lumbar nerve roots will make the treatment more difficult. Therefore, once symptoms such as discomfort and soreness in the lumbar back appear, one should be alert and should first correct bad working habits, reduce fatigue in the lumbar region, pay attention to rest, prevent trauma, keep warm, and perform lumbar relief activities appropriately. If the symptoms of lumbar pain are aggravated again, you should follow the doctor’s instruction and adopt conservative treatment such as bed rest, lumbar perimeter braking, oral anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving drugs or herbal medicines that activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, lumbar traction and physical therapy. Lumbar spine traction can be implemented at home. Ask your doctor in detail about the usage and traction time. The above treatment can effectively reduce the symptoms and prevent further aggravation of the disease. When the symptoms worsen further and produce persistent low back pain, or severe numbness and pain and weakness in the limbs, this may be a herniated lumbar disc or lumbar spinal stenosis, which in some cases requires surgery. For people who have lumbar pain, the first thing is to remove the fear of suspicion of lumbar disc herniation or lumbar spinal stenosis and other serious conditions as soon as there is lumbar discomfort, and be in a state of fear; then, if the diagnosis of lumbar disc herniation or lumbar spinal stenosis is made, one should not just hope for conservative treatment. If the patient still does not accept the doctor’s advice and is unwilling to undergo surgery, the condition will further develop, making it difficult to remove the dysfunction. Some patients and a few doctors mistakenly believe that low back pain is an incurable disease and let it develop, or mistakenly consider treating osteophytes and eliminating bone spurs as the goal of treating low back pain, and the adverse results are obvious. Therefore, if only an X-ray is taken and osteophytes are found in the lumbar spine without any symptoms, there is no need to do any treatment; however, daily health care and careful care of the lumbar area are beneficial and harmless to all people.