What are the symptoms of lumbar 1 compression fracture

Patients with compression fractures of the lumbar 1 show significant local pain symptoms, which affect the normal activities of the patient’s lumbar region and prevent him from walking on the ground. If the compression is more severe, the bone may protrude into the spinal canal and cause damage to the spinal nerves, resulting in numbness, weakness, swelling and pain in one or both lower limbs, or even weakness in thumb dorsiflexion or ankle dorsiflexion, or in more severe cases, complete paralysis. An ordinary X-ray can clarify the severity of vertebral compression, a local CT can clarify whether there is a bone block protruding into the spinal canal, and a local MRI can clarify the severity of spinal nerve compression, so as to determine the active treatment plan.