Treatment of herniated lumbar discs

Now with the use of computers and the improvement of living conditions lumbar disc herniation patients are increasing, and the trend is younger. Long-term bending and sitting work of the crowd is most likely to suffer from lumbar disc herniation, such as computer workers, drivers, accountants, office workers and so on. Lumbar disc herniation is a common and frequent disease, with a long course of illness, easy to recur, causing serious health effects. With the accelerated pace of modern life and work in the city, brain workers are in a sitting position for a long time, with few changes in posture, thus causing the incidence of this type of patients to rise, mainly including civil servants, teachers, office workers and so on. If a person is fixed in a certain position for a long time, the compressed intervertebral disc can not be restored to its normal form. Most patients suffer from lumbar pain, leg pain and radiating pain in the lower limbs, and the symptoms are even aggravated when they do actions to increase abdominal pressure, which seriously affects their normal life. Lumbar intervertebral disc herniation triggering factors ① sudden weight bearing or flash back, is the main reason for the formation of fibrous ring rupture. ②Trauma to the lumbar region causes the degenerated nucleus pulposus to protrude. ③ Improper posture induces herniated nucleus pulposus. (4) The herniation of nucleus pulposus can also occur when the abdominal pressure increases. ⑤ Cold and humidity. Cold or humidity can cause small blood vessel contraction and muscle spasm, which increases the pressure on the intervertebral disc and may cause the degenerated disc to rupture. External factors such as excessive weight-bearing or rapid bending, lateral flexion, rotation and rupture of the annulus fibrosus, or lumbar trauma, or improper posture in daily life and work can also cause lumbar disc herniation. Why is lumbar disc herniation easy to diagnose and difficult to treat? Lumbar disc herniation is a disease in which the nucleus pulposus in the intervertebral discs located between the vertebrae of the spinal column protrudes outward, compressing the nerve roots and the dura mater. Depending on the compressed nerve segment, the area that causes lumbar pain with radiating pain to the lower extremities varies, with radiating pain to the thighs, calves, and feet being common. The main treatment methods for lumbar disc herniation include traction, acupuncture, massage, and external application, etc. These methods can temporarily relieve the symptoms, but it is difficult to cure the disease fundamentally, which results in recurrent attacks and increasing treatment costs. Although surgical treatment has relatively more indications, it is risky, brings great trauma and pain to the patients, and the cost is also higher, which is not easy to be accepted by the patients. Many patients therefore lose confidence in treatment, which results in worsening of symptoms until muscle atrophy and paralysis. The Spine Surgery Department of Shanghai Minhang District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine adopts the most modern method at home and abroad – minimally invasive technology treatment for intervertebral disc herniation, including intervertebral discoscopy technology, intervertebral foramenoscopy technology, intervertebral disc laser vaporization, intervertebral disc cryo-radiofrequency ablation, intervertebral disc ozone ablation and other treatments, which are performed in the images of C-arm, O-arm, and CT. Under the guidance of C-arm, O-arm, CT and other imaging methods, we can rapidly ablate and solidify the herniated intervertebral disc tissues or directly remove the herniated part of the intervertebral disc, eliminate the edema and adhesion of the nerve root, and at the same time, carry out the neural trophic treatment, so as to alleviate the pain and other clinical symptoms and signs or disappear, and then add the traditional Chinese medicine therapy and a variety of rehabilitation physiotherapy to achieve a better therapeutic effect. Early treatments include non-surgical treatments such as Chinese and Western medicine medication and physical therapy; if there is no significant improvement after conservative treatments or if there are already severe symptoms at the time of consultation, then minimally invasive or open surgical treatments will be performed. At the same time, the team of conservative, minimally invasive and surgical experts organically combines the three technologies, complementing each other and constituting a system that forms a new feature of treating cervical and lumbar disc herniation. Advantages of Minimally Invasive Therapy: Minimally invasive spine therapy is performed through discoscopy and intervertebral foraminoscopy under the guidance of C-arm to precisely locate the herniated part, and then directly remove the herniated material through the 0.7mm puncture needle to relieve the nerve compression phenomenon and quickly alleviate the pain symptoms, and at the same time, utilize high-energy bi-polar radiofrequency technology to repair the ruptured discs, so that the treatment of lumbar and cervical disc herniation is achieved in a single step! The whole operation is visualized and takes only about 30 minutes. There is no need for incision, no bleeding, and there is no decrease in spinal stability after the operation, so there is little danger. I have been practicing for 37 years, and I am committed to new technology to treat lumbar spine, cervical spine and other orthopaedic diseases. At present, orthopaedic treatment technology has entered into the era of minimally invasive, such as spinal endoscopy technology, high temperature target radiofrequency ablation of intervertebral discs, disc low-temperature radiofrequency ablation, ozone ablation of intervertebral discs and other therapeutic methods, which makes the patients in the visual minimally invasive conditions to greatly increase the rate of healing. The experts’ skillful techniques and unique treatments greatly ensure the safety of the surgery and high efficiency after treatment.