How to fight lumbar disc herniation

Clinical herniation of intervertebral discs due to trauma or degeneration and other reasons and produce consistent signs and symptoms is called lumbar intervertebral disc herniation. Clinical manifestations include low back pain, sciatica, numbness or pain in the lower limbs, intermittent claudication, and muscle paralysis. According to the clinical symptoms, signs and X-ray, CT, MRI imaging data combined together with comprehensive consideration, comprehensive analysis, can be diagnosed as lumbar disc herniation. Treatment: There are many lumbar disc treatment methods and different programs, only the program of our pain specialty is described here. (1) Prevention is the mainstay, first of all, we should change the bad life and work habits, avoid long-term sitting work, long-term driving and long-term bending labor, and so on. (2) Rest in a hard bed. (Some hospitals advocate absolute bed rest, often difficult to do). (3) Traction, physical therapy, acupuncture. Our hospital uses intermittent traction, which is more effective. (4) Paravertebral nerve block therapy, pain point nerve block therapy. (5) Epidural nerve block therapy. It is a well-established method for the treatment of lumbar intervertebral disc herniation. The principle is to inject drugs directly around the compressed and degenerated nerve roots, which can play the roles of nutritive nerves, eliminating edema, reducing pain and separating the adhesion, etc. The effect is remarkable. (6) Minimally invasive interventional therapy: under X-ray fluoroscopy, a tiny cannulated needle is percutaneously inserted into the intervertebral disc, and through radiofrequency thermo-coagulation or plasma nucleus pulposus decompression, combined with the addition of ozone, the intervertebral disc tissues are coagulated and contracted, and the compression on the nerve root is lifted. (7) Surgical treatment of giant or free type intervertebral disc herniation, etc. should be referred to spinal surgery to remove the protruding intervertebral disc.