What to do when the elderly have lumbar pain

Elderly people with lumbar spine pain, according to the causes of different, different treatment, as follows: First, caused by trauma: if the lumbar spine compression fracture caused by trauma, you need to bed rest or use surgical incision reset internal fixation implantation and fusion treatment, all can relieve the pain symptoms caused by lumbar spine fracture. The patient needs to cooperate with bed rest for 2-3 months, and X-ray filming will reveal the presence of fractures. Second, chronic lumbar spine disease: such as lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis and other causes of lumbar spine pain, can also cooperate with bed rest for 2-3 weeks, lumbar spine continuous traction therapy as well as celecoxib, loxoprofen sodium, etc. Oral, comprehensive treatment can make the elderly patients with lumbar spine pain symptoms have been significantly relieved. Some patients with more severe symptoms also require surgical treatment. Therefore, elderly patients with lumbar pain symptoms should be diagnosed and treated as early as possible in order to achieve significant relief of clinical symptoms.