What to do when a herniated disk in the lower back causes numbness in the legs

Leg numbness caused by lumbar disc herniation can be treated in the following ways: bed rest and physical therapy, medication, and if conservative treatment is ineffective and seriously affects the quality of life, surgery can be considered. 1. Bed rest and physical therapy: first of all, you need to brake and stay in bed. Hot compresses and physical therapy can be applied. At the same time take acupuncture with traction therapy, acupuncture can play a good role in improving clinical symptoms, traction can play a role in relieving the compression of the nerve root. 2. Medication: Generally, we choose nutritive nerve medication and medication to relieve nerve root edema, most of them choose Diosmin with methylcobalamin capsule or Vitamin B1, or IV mannitol and methylcobalamin for symptomatic treatment. 3. Surgery: For serious disc herniation, or after conservative treatment is ineffective, seriously affecting the quality of life of patients, consider surgical treatment, surgery can choose minimally invasive intervertebral foramenoscopy treatment, but also can choose to cut decompression and implantation of bone endoprosthesis. Lumbar disc herniation triggered lower limb numbness, need to combine with the patient’s course of the disease, the condition of the comprehensive judgment, it is recommended to timely consult the hospital, improve the relevant examination and treatment.