Lumbar stiffness and heaviness 4 months after lumbar fusion may be muscle atrophy, tissue adhesion, lumbar muscle strain and so on. It can be improved by strengthening exercise and medication.
1. Muscle atrophy: If you don’t follow the doctor’s instructions for functional exercise after lumbar spine fusion surgery, it may cause muscle atrophy and lumbar stiffness and heaviness, which can be improved by strengthening the training, such as straight-leg raising exercise and double lower limb bicycle pedaling exercise.
2. Tissue adhesion: surgery will cause damage to the soft tissue, if the repair is not particularly good, there will be tissue adhesion, can be relieved by appropriate hot compresses, can also be relieved by exercising the muscles of the lower back.
3. Lumbar muscle strain: this situation may also have nothing to do with the surgery, it may be that the patient himself has lumbar muscle strain, you can use diclofenac diethylamide emulsion, flurbiprofen babu paste for external use, when the symptoms are more serious, you can take etoricoxib and celecoxib orally, and if there is a specific point of pain, you can inject lidocaine and tretinoin for closure treatment.
Lumbar spine fusion 4 months after the back stiffness and heavy may also have other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, give targeted treatment or standardized treatment. All of the above drugs should be used in accordance with medical advice.