Leg pain is the main manifestation of lumbar herniation. According to statistics, 60-80% of people will experience lumbar pain at least once in their lives. Many people “take for granted” that lumbar disc herniation must lead to lumbar pain, so once the “lumbar pain” is a lumbar disc herniation. This is not the case. The lumbar spine is made up of the spinal bones, intervertebral discs, synovial joints and the surrounding muscles and ligaments. Any one of these structures can be the cause of pain. Therefore, lumbar pain is not suggestive of a herniated lumbar disc. The typical manifestation of a lumbar disc herniation is sciatica, which is pain radiating from the buttocks along the outer thigh all the way to the calf or foot, in order for such a symptom to suggest a lumbar disc herniation. In other words, perhaps most people with lumbar disc herniation will start with low back pain, but soon the symptoms will focus on the “legs”. Therefore, leg pain is the main manifestation of lumbar disc herniation. Pain is “bliss” Pain: “loud thunder, little rain” The most common symptom in patients with lumbar disc herniation is pain. Pain is an inflammatory response of the nerve roots, and although the pain is sometimes very intense, it is actually in a relatively mild state in terms of pathological damage. Pain reduction ≠ improvement Conversely, if the herniated disc continues to compress the nerve root, it may lead to dysfunction of the nerve root, at which time the pain may be reduced, but accompanied by numbness, wood, or even weakness of the lower limbs. At this time, the patient’s subjective symptoms of pain are reduced, and some patients think that their condition has improved, not knowing that numbness and weakness of the limbs are signs of nerve damage – a sign of disease progression. Doctor’s tip As painful as it is, beware even more of pain relief. If a huge herniated disc occupies the spinal canal and compresses the cauda equina nerve, it can lead to numbness in the perineal region, effortful urination and fecal incontinence, and weakness in the lower limbs. This is the most serious case of lumbar disc herniation and often requires emergency treatment. Lumbar disc herniation ≠ lumbar disc herniation Now that the standard of living has improved, people are more and more concerned about their health. When back pain occurs, many people will choose to go to the hospital for MRI or CT. “, “dural sac” or “nerve root”, most patients are nervous. Is the problem really serious? In fact, in most cases, there is no need to be nervous. Medical science does use the terms “bulging,” “herniated,” “prolapsed,” and “free” to describe the degree of disc herniation, but these are only imaging terms. However, these are only imaging changes. The degree of herniation on imaging often does not match the patient’s symptoms. For example, many normal people who have no back or leg pain at all may have herniated discs on their lumbar spine MRI; many people with significant herniated discs have no clinical manifestations; conversely, some people with non-significant herniated discs have very severe leg pain. The doctor suggests that the imaging “lumbar disc herniation” is only a phenomenon, and the disease “lumbar intervertebral herniation”, although only one word, but there is a difference between them. Only when the protrusion is combined with radiating pain, numbness or weakness in the lower extremities can it be called “lumbar disc herniation”, which is the disease state.