What to do if you can’t stand up straight because of a herniated disk

Lumbar disc herniation can not straighten the waist, you can carry out the following treatments: 1. Conservative treatment, lying on a hard board bed absolute bed rest, including urination and defecation and eating in bed. At the same time with traction therapy, improve the pressure between the intervertebral space, promote the possibility of partial recovery of the disc. For those who can’t tolerate the pain, you can take Meloxicam and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs as symptomatic treatment, usually about two weeks to significantly reduce the recovery. 2, surgical treatment, including minimally invasive intervertebral foramenoscopy surgery or open surgery. For the more typical symptoms, lumbar disc herniation compression of the nerve is obviously intolerable, or after conservative treatment effect is relatively poor patients, can consider surgical treatment, need to first lumbar spine imaging examination, according to the protruding parts and compression, choose the appropriate surgical method. When minimally invasive surgery fails to resolve the problem, further open surgery is needed to relieve the nerve compression before recovery.