What are the treatment options for spinal tumors?
Early diagnosis of spinal tumors is dependent on the functional outcome of the nerve. Spinal metastases themselves are often asymptomatic and are often detected only during routine bone scans. The diagnosis of a spinal tumor usually requires a biopsy first.
The symptoms of a spinal tumor may be due to one or more of the following reasons:
1. A progressively larger mass in the vertebral body that breaks through the bone cortex and invades the paravertebral soft tissues;
2, compression or invasion of adjacent nerve roots;
3, destruction of the vertebral body secondary to pathological fracture;
4, pathologic fracture followed by spinal instability, especially when complicated by osteolytic destruction of the posterior attachment;
5. Spinal cord compression.
Determining the treatment plan for spinal metastases requires multidisciplinary involvement such as medical oncology, general medicine, radiology, radiotherapy, neurology and orthopedics. The principles of treatment for primary spinal tumors are the same as those for limb tumors. There are three main approaches to the treatment of spinal metastases: chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery. The goal of both medical and surgical treatment of metastases is to improve quality of life to the greatest extent possible. Once the diagnosis of metastasis is established, surgery or surgery in combination with other treatments can play a role in relieving pain, improving or maintaining neurological function, and restoring the structural integrity of the spine.
What should be done for post-surgical care of spinal tumors?
1. Patients with cervical spine and high thoracic spine should lie down without pillow, and add pillow cushion under the neck according to the need, so that the neck can be posteriorly extended. Patients with thoracic and lumbar spine surgery need to lie down with pillow for 6 hours before using pillow. After the vital signs are stable, thoracic and lumbar patients can elevate the head of the bed by 30° according to medical advice
2, the patient can eat only after exhaustion, when eating, first from the liquid diet, but do not recommend the patient to eat beans, milk and other easy to bloat food, and then gradually into the solid and other highly nutritious easy to digest diet. After lying flat for 6 hours after surgery, axial turning is performed under the condition of stable vital signs with the assistance of nurses, once every 2 to 4 hours. Turning method for cervical spine patients: the head and shoulders must be kept turned at the same time.
Turning method for thoracic spine patients.
Shoulders and hips must be kept turned at the same time. Encourage the patient to cough and spit effectively. Urinary catheter training. Regular turning to maintain skin integrity. Functional exercise as prescribed by the doctor: cervical spine patients should not lower their heads, tilt their heads, or twist from side to side at will, and bring cervical brace as prescribed by the doctor when going down.
Dietary guidelines for spinal tumor patients
Patients who have spinal tumors must be very anxious and worried about whether their condition will recover successfully. This is a common feeling among all of us. Even in the daily diet, they are afraid to eat well, worrying if they have eaten something wrong and aggravated their condition. Therefore, knowing the knowledge of dietary care, we can avoid such worries, eat well, enhance nutrition and speed up the pace of recovery. In this regard, our experts have launched the dietary care guide for spinal tumor patients, hoping to help guide your diet.
The spine tumor accounts for 6% to 10% of the whole body tumor, whether it is osteosarcoma, osteoid osteoma, aneurysmal bone cyst, metastatic bone tumor may be seen in the spine tumor. If you have a spinal tumor, you must not panic too much, we must build up confidence and cooperate with the treatment from the aspect of diet.
The dietary contraindications for spinal tumor patients are as follows.
Desirable.
1, it is advisable to eat more foods with anti myelopathy and osteosarcoma, such as kelp, nori, tamari, sea clam, wakame, almond, peach kernel, plum.
2, bone pain is appropriate to eat turtle plate, turtle meat, perforated shell, oyster, crab, shrimp, walnuts.
3, spleen enlargement is appropriate to eat snapper, loach, sea eel, ark, kelp, wakame.
4, anemia is appropriate to eat pig liver, mushrooms, sesame, bee milk, yellowtail, peanuts, sea cucumber, grass carp, abalone
Avoid.
1, avoid smoking, alcohol and spicy stimulating food.
2, avoid moldy, pickled, fried, fatty food.
3, avoid mutton, goose, pig head meat and other hairy things.
In addition, we should develop good habits in daily life, try to smoke and drink less, avoid body stimulation. Reduce and avoid radioactive radiation, pay attention to keep warm, strengthen physical exercise, enhance the body’s immune function and prevent viral infections. Friends can also go to the hospital regularly to review and check the recovery situation. As long as we keep a cheerful mood and actively cooperate with the treatment, we can overcome the attack of the disease one day sooner and regain our health and confident sunny life!