Lumbar muscle strain and lumbar disc herniation can be identified by clinical symptoms, imaging performance and other methods.
1. Clinical symptoms: the clinical symptoms of lumbar muscle strain are mainly pain in the lumbar region, with obvious distension and pain, and usually no pain in the buttocks or lower limbs, which is aggravated by overwork and alleviated when resting a little. The most important symptom of herniated disc is nerve compression, such as sciatica, the pain can be radiated from buttocks and thighs to feet, accompanied by numbness and weakness of lower limbs and other symptoms.
3. Imaging performance: most of the imaging performance of patients with lumbar muscle strain is edema, thickening or atrophy of the lumbar muscle, while the imaging of patients with lumbar disc herniation can see obvious dehydration of the lumbar disc, disc or nucleus pulposus protruding, and even edema and compression of the dural sac or nerve root.
It is recommended to consult the doctor in time for relevant examinations, and it is easier to distinguish between the two after comparison.