Treatment for 18-year-old lumbar disc herniation includes changing bad habits, medication, weight reduction, low back muscle exercise, and surgery.
1. Changing bad habits: don’t sit still for a long time or keep a position for a long time, sit for a while, stand up and move around, keep a good sitting posture in daily life, don’t stilt your legs.
2. Medications: When there is muscle damage, joint degeneration or disc compression to the nerve can cause aseptic inflammation, pain, you can use anti-inflammatory painkillers to anti-inflammatory, pain relief, such as ibuprofen and so on.
3. Reduce weight: Reducing weight can reduce the pressure on the lumbar disc, thus reducing the chance of disc herniation.
4. Lumbar back muscle exercise: After the pain symptoms improve in the acute stage, you can do some exercises and stretches for the lumbar back muscles, such as deep squatting exercises, lying down stretches, and four-point crawling postures.
5. Surgery: If there is serious nerve compression, surgery is needed.
In case of lumbar disc herniation, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time for early and regular treatment. The above medications are recommended to be used under the guidance of a doctor.