How to treat low back and leg pain First of all, we must clearly diagnose and find out what causes low back and leg pain, then lift the cause of the disease, and carry out symptomatic treatment according to the symptoms to relieve the pain. If the back and leg pain is caused by lumbar disc herniation compressing the nerves, the treatment can be divided into two categories. First, non-surgical treatment. The vast majority of patients with low back and leg pain can be relieved by non-surgical treatment. Patients rest in bed, reduce bending activities, and wear lumbar braces. Avoid all injurious factors. Perform exercises for the low back muscles. Regular training of the lumbar back muscles can increase the stability of the lumbar spine and also slow down the degeneration of the spine. It can also be treated by traction, physiotherapy, massage, medicine and physical therapy. Short-term appropriate traction can relax the spastic sacrospinous muscles, reduce the pressure on the intervertebral discs, and decrease the inflammatory response to nerve root irritation. If non-surgical treatment is ineffective, then optional surgical treatment can be used. Surgical treatment is suitable for the following people: those who have severe symptoms of lumbar and leg pain, recurrent attacks, invalidated by non-surgical treatment for more than half a year, and whose condition gradually worsens and affects work and life. Traditional open surgery, microsurgical lumbar disc removal and minimally invasive disc removal surgery can be used. For patients whose conservative treatment is ineffective and who cannot reach the standard of surgery, “nerve block” treatment is also a very good choice. A nerve block is a treatment that injects analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs directly into the vicinity of the diseased nerve root.