What is the best way to treat a herniated disc in the lumbar spine?

Traction may not always be effective. Traction can reduce the pressure on the intervertebral disc, induce the nucleus pulposus to return to different degrees, promote inflammation, release muscle spasm, and restore the normal alignment of the posterior joint. However, it is not recommended for central, free type herniation and huge nucleus pulposus herniation. Tui na massage is not suitable for all patients. Massage can produce inhibitory and regulating effects on the nervous system, play an analgesic effect, relieve muscle spasm, improve blood circulation, promote perineural inflammation, relieve nerve root extrusion, and possibly make the herniated nucleus pulposus partially return. However, severe painful central herniation and associated spinal stenosis, massage is generally not recommended. It should not be used reluctantly in complicated conditions with long duration, severe pain and obvious or rapidly deteriorating symptoms of nerve compression. The options for minimally invasive surgery and interventional indications are limited. These include chemical lysis of the nucleus pulposus, percutaneous lumbar discectomy, endoscopic disc surgery, ozone injection, and laser vaporization. The advantages of these methods are less damage, faster results, shorter recovery time, and fewer surgical sequelae. However, the disadvantage is that the indications for treatment are very strict, if your condition is not in the scope of the treatment, you do not work, and there will be other adverse consequences. No more than 10 percent of people need surgery (meaning conventional open surgery). Surgery for herniated discs has a history of 60 years, but Professor Yang Keqin, a leading orthopedic specialist in China, said, “Surgery is mainly to remove the herniation to achieve decompression, but it can also bring about problems such as instability and osteophytes in the lower lumbar spine, and it is difficult to predict how far the symptoms can be reduced after surgery, so do not be bent on pursuing surgical treatment.” He added, “It must be clear that no more than 10 percent of patients with lumbar disc herniation require surgical treatment.” Which patients need surgery? 1, diagnosed lumbar disc herniation for more than six months, ineffective after non-surgical treatment, and worsening symptoms. 2. The first severe attack of lumbar disc herniation, in which the patient has difficulty moving and sleeping due to pain, and is forced to lie in a lateral position with the hip and knee flexed, or even kneeling. 3. Single nerve palsy or cauda equina palsy occurs, manifesting as muscle paralysis or impaired defecation and urination. 4.Middle-aged patients with long duration of disease, affecting work and life. 5.Reliable examination confirms total disc degeneration or large herniation. 6.Non-surgical treatment is effective, but if the symptoms are recurrent and the pain is more than 3 times, surgical treatment is recommended. 7.Protruding disc and other causes of lumbar spinal stenosis. After all, how to choose? Is there no one method that can be effective? Is it that the disease is not treatable? No, this disease is easy to treat. Where is the key? The indications of the grasp! The best way to treat your condition is the one that suits you. Depending on the condition, you should treat how to treat, do not escape, do not have a fluke mentality. If your condition requires surgical treatment, you just can’t escape. In the above categories of treatment methods, are effective ways to cure lumbar disc herniation, each has its own advantages and disadvantages, each has its own range of treatment. You do not know how to choose, you are confused, the reason is that our country currently does not have such a specialist hospital, can be integrated with all the treatment methods, with the purchase of all the treatment equipment and professional personnel, the formation of a lumbar disc herniation treatment “supermarket”, so that each patient can find a reliable method suitable for themselves The hospital will be able to integrate all the treatment methods and purchase all the treatment equipment and professional talents to form a “supermarket” for the treatment of lumbar disc herniation, so that every patient can find a reliable method suitable for him/her.