Why are high school students susceptible to lumbar disc herniation?

In recent years, many secondary school students suffer from lumbar disc herniation, generally at the age of 13 to 18 years old, with the “bean sprout” body type and “obese” body type. Patients often report discomfort from lumbar pain, which increases after sitting in class and decreases after rest, and radiating pain in the lower extremities after sports activities or falls, with symptoms that are sometimes mild and sometimes severe, generally with less pain and fewer complications, and often misdiagnosed clinically as lumbar myofibrosis, with poor results from conventional treatment. There are several reasons for the occurrence of lumbar disc herniation in adolescence in secondary school students. 1, too fast development In the past 20 years, the living standard of our people has improved significantly, and the puberty of the majority of adolescents has generally advanced, with an average height increase of about 5 cm compared to 20 years ago. Specifically, it seems that girls at the age of 11 to 14 years old, boys at the age of 12 to 15 years old or so, the rapid increase in height, rapid ossification of the cartilage plate, incomplete development of the intervertebral disc, high water content of the nucleus pulposus, and less collagen content, insufficient flexibility of the intervertebral disc. The strength of the lumbar muscles is also obviously insufficient, and the disc is prone to protrusion under the action of sudden external forces. 2, too little exercise Nowadays, high school students are under pressure to learn, in addition to seven or eight classes a day. Daily also left a lot of homework, sitting time is too long, while the time for exercise is relatively reduced up lumbar muscle strain, and is not conducive to the absorption of calcium, affecting the development of bones. 3, infancy crawling less human spine has four normal physiological curvature, infants in the normal crawling process look forward with their heads up, which is conducive to the formation of the physiological curvature of the anterior cervical spine; similarly, crawling in the abdominal droop can help the formation of the physiological forward flexion of the lumbar spine. Now most children are only children, several adults to look after a child, the child crawling opportunities are few, moving to be held up by parents, slightly standing when placed in the walker walking, the formation of the normal physiological curvature of the child is very unfavorable, to the teenage years when the weight increased will easily cause lumbar disc herniation. Moreover, secondary school students are in the active period, there are many lumbar disc herniation student patients are in sports lumbar injury and lead to lumbar disc herniation. This is because the intervertebral disc has the role of cushioning violence and reducing oscillation, and because it is often affected and squeezed by weight, muscle and ligament tension, when sports such as running and jumping or weight-bearing are performed, it is easy to make degenerative changes in the fibrous ring, causing rupture, making the nucleus pulposus prolapse, compressing the nerve roots and producing symptoms of lumbar pain. Therefore, trauma, especially cumulative injury, is a cause of disc herniation due to rupture of the annulus fibrosus. In sports, the main causes of lumbar disc herniation are: (1) insufficient preparatory activities before sports; (2) improper lumbar activities; (3) lack of lumbar protection measures in sports or training with high lumbar load; (4) weak concept of self-protection. Therefore, in order to better avoid damage to the waist in sports and the occurrence of lumbar disc herniation, the following aspects are generally required: before carrying out sports, there should be sufficient preparatory activities. No matter what kind of sports, before the official start should be the spine, limbs from small to large, slow to fast preparatory activities, in order to waist full activity, limb joints flexible as degree. In sports, the amount of lumbar exercise should be reasonably arranged, the amount of exercise should be small to large, gradually, and in the movement of a certain time interval, in order to avoid excessive fatigue of the waist. Pay attention to sports posture. Attention should be paid to all sports involving the correct posture of the spine, especially the state of the waist in sports, should try to maintain its natural position. In sports with high lumbar load, lumbar protection measures should be strengthened. Such as weightlifting and other sports, should wear a wide belt or elastic waist belt, which can not only play a role in strengthening the lumbar muscle strength, and can properly limit the lumbar spine over-extension or over-flexion activities, thus playing a certain protective role. Should be timely and correct treatment of lumbar injuries, in the case of lumbar injuries do not continue to train, so as to avoid repeated injuries, delayed difficult to heal. If the treatment does not work, you can come to the pain clinic for specialized treatment, and your lumbar pain can be completely cured by acupuncture and heat therapy, Chinese herbal medicine and other methods.