For foot numbness caused by low back, it is recommended to change daily life style, functional exercise, physical method of treatment, traction, massage, medication such as nutritive nerve drug methylcobalamin and surgical treatment to alleviate the problem.
1. Daily life style: avoid the strain of the back and weight bearing and force, such as avoiding sedentary, long-term bending, etc., carry out appropriate functional exercises for the back and waist muscles, such as swallow fly and walking backwards, etc., with lumbar spine traction therapy and physical therapy, such as ultrasound, electromagnetic therapy and infrared light to reduce the edema of the nerve root and relieve numbness.
2. Physical therapy: mainly massage, massage and so on, can relieve nerve compression, reduce the symptoms of numbness.
3. Drug therapy, mainly nutritive nerve drugs such as methylcobalamin, etc., generally need to be used for a long time to have an effect.
4. After non-surgical treatment, the effect is not good, the need for timely surgical treatment to relieve nerve root compression and irritation, generally in the intervertebral foraminoscopy minimally invasive surgical methods of treatment or open surgical treatment.
The foot numbness caused by lumbar, may also be lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis, lumbar spondylolisthesis, or lumbar spine tumor lesions and infectious lesions caused by, suggest that the patient go to the hospital in a timely manner to diagnose and treat, and to clarify the cause of the disease.