How should patients with lumbar disc herniation protect their back?

1, avoid stooping and weight-bearing lumbar protrusion patients to avoid or reduce stooping as much as possible. Home life like washing dishes, cutting vegetables, stir-frying, mopping, sweeping or vacuum cleaner vacuuming and other household chores should not be carried out. If it can not be avoided, you can properly raise the sink, chopping board, stove, etc. to avoid bending down to work. When picking up things from the ground, it is best to squat down, rather than bending down to pick up. Lumbar protrusion patients holding heavy objects is best not more than 5 pounds. 2, bedside manner For patients with serious symptoms, bed rest requires complete, continuous and sufficient, the best bed for hard board bed, mattress thin, thick, soft and hard moderately, the height of the bed to be slightly lower, it is best to make the patient just sit up, feet on the ground. When patients lie on their backs: the hip and knee joints should be kept in a certain flexed position. This not only flattens the lumbar lordosis, but also avoids the pulling of the muscles of the lower limbs. Both can lift the lower limb muscle tension, but also can make the patient long-term tolerance, which is conducive to recovery. 3, urine, need to pay attention to the use of the potty can sometimes cause and aggravate the patient’s lumbar discomfort, generally can encourage the patient to get out of bed to urinate and defecate. When going to the toilet, crutches or other people can be used to reduce the pressure on the intervertebral discs. When going to the toilet, you can use crutches or others to help you to reduce the pressure on the intervertebral discs. 4, appropriate function exercise lumbar disc herniation bed rest is not absolute. Lying down without moving will have adverse effects on blood circulation and motor system. Gymnastic exercises for patients with lumbar disc herniation are extremely helpful for recovery after getting out of bed. The most simple and easy to do is to flex both knees against the chest, the action requires gentle, rapid and rhythmic, gradually increase the amount of exercise, not too hard, but pay attention to if the movement and pain after the movement, you should immediately stop exercise. 5, avoid the cold Cold stimulation will aggravate the symptoms of lumbar protrusion, if the cold caused by coughing, sneezing will make the abdominal pressure increase and lead to more obvious symptoms. 6, the reasonable use of medical girdle can increase abdominal pressure, to ensure the stability of the lumbar spine. However, medical girdle should not be worn for a long time, so as not to cause lumbar muscle atrophy. In particular, it is not recommended to use it when eating, sleeping and bathing.