Which is more serious: lumbar disc bulge or lumbar spondylolisthesis

For lumbar disc bulge and lumbar spine slippage, lumbar spine slippage is more serious, because lumbar spine slippage is the instability between the vertebrae, in the late excessive bending, strain situation, it is easy to cause obvious damage to the spinal nerve roots, causing the patient a series of clinical symptoms. Simple lumbar disc bulge, will be manifested as the patient appears lumbar pain symptoms, active attention to rest protection, wear a lumbar belt to protect the local, and with acupuncture, baking electricity, cupping, traction, massage and other physical therapy methods, usually avoid sedentary, standing, strain, can improve the patient’s clinical symptoms. However, patients with lumbar spondylolisthesis will become more and more serious with the passage of time, the clinical symptoms of leg pain and leg numbness, it is difficult to improve simply through conservative treatment, most still need to actively carry out the vertebral body slippage incision and internal fixation surgery treatment.