Most of the lumbar intervertebral disc herniation can be treated with hot compresses, which has a certain effect on symptomatic relief, but not all lumbar intervertebral disc herniation hot compress treatment is effective.
Hot compress treatment for lumbar disc herniation can promote local blood circulation in the lumbar spine, thereby reducing the aseptic inflammatory reaction caused by lumbar disc herniation, and to a certain extent increase the material metabolism and nutritional function of the herniated area by accelerating the circulating blood flow, which has a facilitating effect on the relief of pain. Therefore, physical therapy such as infrared heat therapy is the application of the principle.
However, not all lumbar disc herniation in the heat treatment replacement are effective, such as long-term lumbar disc herniation with sclerosis is difficult to be treated through the measures of heat therapy.
Therefore, the treatment of herniated lumbar discs should be combined with other therapeutic measures after the cause of the herniated disc has been clarified.