Glucosamine tablets cannot cure lumbar disc herniation and are generally used as a preventive and adjunctive treatment for osteoarthritis diseases. For lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, physiotherapy, lumbar muscle exercise, medication and surgical treatment should usually be carried out.
1. Physical therapy: Patients with lumbar disc herniation can choose physical therapy such as magnetic therapy and interferential electric stimulation therapy to promote local blood circulation, relax the local muscles of lumbar vertebrae, and alleviate pain symptoms.
2. Lumbar muscle exercise: under the guidance of the doctor, you can carry out small flying swallow, hip bridge, straight leg raise, swimming and other sports to enhance the muscle strength around the lumbar vertebrae, so as to slow down the process of lumbar disc degeneration.
3. Medication: NSAIDs such as ibuprofen and diclofenac sodium can be taken under doctor’s guidance to improve local inflammatory reaction and relieve pain, and neurotrophic drugs such as methylcobalamin and vitamin B1 can be chosen to improve the symptoms of nerve compression.
4. Surgery: If the discomfort caused by lumbar disc herniation does not improve after conservative treatment, surgery is needed to perform nucleotomy.
Patients suffering from lumbar disc herniation should go to the hospital in time, according to the cause of the targeted treatment, the use of drugs should be used under the guidance of the doctor, to avoid blindly using drugs.