What to do when a herniated lumbar disc causes numbness in the limbs

Herniated lumbar intervertebral discs cause numbness of the limbs, may be the herniated intervertebral disc compression of the nerves, feasible conservative or surgical treatment. 1. Conservative treatment: try to rest in bed, reduce sedentary, standing for a long time, can not bend over and bear weight, pay attention to lumbar warmth, wear a waist corset at the waist during activities, oral nutritional nerve drugs, such as methylcobalamin tablets, etc., to improve the nerves, alleviate numbness, and at the same time, can be lumbar spine traction, to reduce the protruding disc on the lumbar spine oppression, so that the symptoms of numbness in limbs reduced or disappeared. 2. Surgery: If the symptoms cannot be relieved by conservative treatment, or the numbness and pain in the limbs are serious and recurrent, affecting the life, surgery is feasible to remove the protruding nucleus pulposus through surgery, so that the nerve compression can be lifted completely and the nerve conduction function can be restored. The above drugs need to be applied under the guidance of a doctor, do not take on their own, if the symptoms of lumbar disc herniation caused by numbness of the limbs, it is recommended that timely medical perfect examination to identify the cause, to deal with.