How to prevent lumbar disc herniation

Lumbar disc herniation, a common orthopedic and spine surgery disorder, is a common cause of back and leg pain and can occur in all age groups, with young adults being the majority. Although there are many diagnostic and treatment methods, mature treatment programs and precise treatment effects, once the disease develops, it still has different degrees of impact on working life. As the old saying goes, it is one of the quintessential theories of traditional medicine in China not to treat the disease, but to treat the disease in the future. As for lumbar disc herniation, we should not only treat the disease, but also treat the disease before it happens, and strengthen prevention can effectively reduce the incidence of lumbar disc herniation. The incidence of lumbar disc herniation is high in the following cases, which I found in the clinic.1 The incidence is high in young adults, most of the patients are 20-50 years old, some of them are thin, light weight or stout, overweight, most of them have underdeveloped muscles in the lumbar back, and their strength is relatively weak.2 Both men and women can be seen, slightly more men than women, but the incidence of female patients is gradually increasing.3 Occupational characteristics, long-term heavy physical laborers or those without heavy physical labor The incidence of this type of disease is even higher than that of heavy physical laborers.4 There are cases of sudden weight gain, such as pregnant women, or those who have a sudden decrease in exercise and sudden weight gain due to disease, trauma, and other factors. The presence of the above-mentioned situation of friends to pay more attention to prevention, some specific methods of prevention are as follows: 1, rest should try to sleep on a soft and hard bed collapse, avoid sleeping on the sofa or too soft mattress. Choose a mattress both to have the appropriate softness to fit a certain spinal physiological curvature of the torso, but also to provide stable and good support for the body, so that we can rest in a stable and comfortable state, to avoid chronic injury caused by the continued unstable abnormal stress of the musculoskeletal system. Palm beds take into account both the comfort and good support for the lumbar region is a more ideal choice. 2, to choose a well-supported seat, to maintain the correct standing or sitting posture, to avoid causing uneven stress on the intervertebral disc leading to tearing of the annulus fibrosus, the nucleus pulposus from the high stress areas outward. Try to chest up, waist upright not side tilt not excessive forward tilt so that the center of gravity of the trunk falls between the sit bones. 3, the same position should not last too long. Sitting forward position when the pressure of the intervertebral disc is 3-4 times the weight, after continuous heavy pressure disc and fiber ring are prone to degeneration. At the same time, the muscles of the back for a long time without flexion and extension activities, easy to cause muscle stiffness, tension and elasticity decline, affecting the stability of the spine. It is recommended that every hour of work appropriate limb stretching activities such as chest expansion exercises 5-10 minutes, both to relieve fatigue, but also to maintain muscle tone and toughness. 4, if the low back muscles are not developed, weak strength can be appropriate to increase outdoor aerobic exercise such as jogging, walking, etc., which also helps control weight, but should not be strenuous exercise. At the same time, you can carry out functional exercises for the low back muscles, such as “small swallow fly” and “five-point support”, can effectively improve the strength and flexibility of the low back muscles. Muscle strengthening can increase the stability of the spine and reduce the pressure on the intervertebral discs. 5, try to avoid bending forward to move heavy objects, this action when the waist under the greatest stress. Also pay attention to the combination of work and rest to prevent overexertion, to avoid trauma, to reduce the risk of muscle damage and fiber ring tears. If you can do in accordance with some of the above suggestions and develop good working life habits, it is good for the prevention of lumbar disc herniation and also beneficial for the treatment of patients with the onset of the disease.