Dural sac and nerve root compression can be done with traction and treated symptomatically depending on the severity of the patient’s condition. No special treatment is needed for no obvious symptoms. Symptoms of nerve compression can be treated with traction, hard bed, dehydration and surgery.
1. Asymptomatic: If there are no obvious symptoms, no special treatment is needed. Usually, you should pay attention to rest, by changing bad habits, moderate exercise and balanced diet.
2. Symptoms of nerve irritation: If symptoms of nerve irritation occur, rest, sleep on a hard board bed, and perform lumbar traction under the guidance of a doctor to facilitate the retraction of the intervertebral disk. At the same time, oral anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs such as ibuprofen, dehydration and swelling drugs such as mannitol to relieve symptoms. Adverse reactions include nausea, vomiting, water and electrolyte disorders, active peptic ulcer patients, severe water loss is prohibited.
3. Loss of limb sensation and movement: When the dural sac and nerve root compression is serious, there can be obvious loss of limb sensation and movement, should consult the doctor in time, surgical decompression treatment under the guidance of the doctor, to restore normal sensation and movement in time, to avoid prolonged compression caused by loss of limb sensation and movement.
Dural sac and nerve root compression in time to go to the hospital for treatment, under the guidance of the doctor, according to the severity of the patient’s condition to the symptomatic treatment, so as to avoid delaying the condition.