slipped disk

In recent years, with the diversified changes in lifestyles, patients with lumbar disc herniation have shown an increasing trend, seriously affecting their normal work and daily life. Although medication or surgery is needed to treat this disease, usual care is more important. Below we will give you a comprehensive introduction to some of the daily recovery considerations, hoping to help new and old patients to recover health early and never relapse! First, dietary arrangements, lumbar disc herniation patients due to illness and reduce a certain amount of activity, so the dietary intake should be appropriately reduced, slow gastrointestinal peristalsis, digestive function is reduced, and so on. Therefore, the diet should be reasonably arranged, pay attention to small meals, eat more vegetables and fruits and legumes, eat more food with high calcium content, such as milk, dairy products, shrimp, kelp, sesame paste, soy products, etc., which is conducive to calcium supplementation, but the lumbar vertebrae have grown bone spurs (osteophytes) of the patient should not consume too much calcium. Try to eat less meat and high fat food, because it is easy to cause dry stools, defecation and aggravation of the condition. Second, living arrangements The correct standing posture should be two eyes flat, chest, straight waist, two legs upright, two feet away from about the same width as the pelvis, so that the whole body gravity uniformly from the spine, the pelvis to the lower limbs, and then by the two lower limbs to the feet to become a real “feet on the ground”, which can effectively prevent the medulla protruding again. Standing should not be too long, should be appropriate for in-situ activities, dragon its is the lower back activities, in order to release the lower back muscle fatigue. Correct sitting posture should be the upper body straight, abdominal, legs and knees together, if necessary, in the feet under a pad a foot or stirrups, so that the knee joints slightly higher than the hip. After sitting for a long time, you should also move around and loosen the muscles of the lower limbs. Usually work life should be combined with work and rest, pay attention to the correct posture, avoid bending over to lift heavy objects. Third, the appropriate wear waist protector and keep warm against the cold wear waist protector for lumbar disc herniation patients, the main purpose is to brake, is to limit the lumbar spine flexion and other movements, especially to assist the dorsal muscles to limit some unnecessary forward bending movements, to ensure that the damage to the lumbar intervertebral discs can be localized to fully rest. In addition, the lumbar cold, moisture is easy to make the symptoms worse or recurrence, patients can choose both braking and warm, breathable, non-sweat accumulation of high-performance rehabilitation lumbar protection to protect the lumbar. Fourth, pay attention to the bedding and lying position too soft bed in the human body weight pressure can form the middle of the low, four sides of the high shape, it is easy to affect the physiological curve of the lumbar vertebrae, so that the discs are not uniform force. Therefore, from the perspective of treatment and prevention of lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, it is more appropriate to use wooden boards, and the bedding should be soft and suitable for general use, so as to maintain the balance of the lumbar vertebrae to a large extent. Sleeping positions can be broadly categorized into supine, side and prone. When lying on the back, as long as the lying equipment is suitable, the limbs to maintain the natural extension, the curvature of the spine does not change much. Side lying generally do not have to pay too much attention to the left or right side of the lying position, because people in order to seek a more comfortable position during sleep, always have to keep turning over. Prone position when the chest pressure, lumbar lordosis increased, the most likely to produce discomfort. Therefore, it is generally appropriate to take the supine position and side lying position. Fifth, pay attention to appropriate rehabilitation gymnastics, lumbar disc herniation patients in the acute stage should be quiet, should not exercise. After the condition is stabilized, it can be matched with moderate exercise such as gymnastics. Adhere to the appropriate method, correct posture, the principle of gradual and orderly progress, perseverance, for the waist to carry out appropriate rehabilitation gymnastics exercises, more representative of the gymnastics have backward walking method, Flying Swallow method, supine bridge method, left and right waist method, etc., there are some online introduction, you can find the gymnastics suitable for your own.