How to treat nerve pain in the foot

Foot nerve pain can be seen in patients with herniated discs, often with a history of prolonged heavy labor or prolonged desk work, and with a slow onset, often accompanied by lumbar pain, limited lumbar movement, and numbness in the lower extremities. The symptoms are more common on one side, but can also spread to both sides in patients with severe symptoms. The symptoms are aggravated when standing or sitting for a long time, and can be relieved after lying down and resting, and CT or MRI of the lumbar spine can show that the herniated disc is compressing the nerve roots. Patients should usually pay attention to rest, avoid sedentary, heavy physical labor, sleep bed is not too soft, usually should strengthen the exercise of the lumbar back muscle to achieve the purpose of stabilizing the spine, such as exercise backward walking, small swallow flying movements, when necessary, feasible massage, massage, traction, physical therapy, etc., can achieve to a certain effect. Patients with obvious pain can be given nerve-nourishing drugs for pain relief, such as methylcobalamin and diclofenac sodium. For patients whose conservative treatments such as oral medication or massage and massage are ineffective, vertebral surgery can also be chosen.