Treatment of herniated discs

  Intervertebral disc herniation is a common and frequent disease that has been plaguing people’s health for a long time. The Department of Spine Surgery of Hunan Provincial Hospital has formed a set of effective treatment methods for herniated discs in the course of long-term clinical practice. Non-surgical treatment: commonly used methods include direct external application of traditional Chinese medicine, various Chinese and Western drug therapy, traction therapy, massage therapy, physical therapy, acupuncture therapy, Chinese medicine fumigation, and even simple bed rest is also a traditional and effective treatment method. Since most of the treatments are carried out in a way that minimizes the patient’s injury, it is often called “conservative treatment”. According to statistics, 80% to 90% of patients can be treated by non-surgical methods and healed.  2. Surgical treatment: full lamina, half lamina, intervertebral openings, disc removal by discoscopic access, etc., to achieve the purpose of nerve root release and decompression.  3. Interventional treatment: a class of treatment methods between surgery and non-surgery, such as percutaneous myelotomy, laser nucleolysis of the intervertebral disc, ozone ablation, etc.