What to do when your legs go numb from meditation

Meditation leg numbness, may be a physiological situation, may also be lumbar disc herniation, cerebrovascular disease and other factors lead to, need to identify the cause of the disease, the use of general treatment, drugs, surgery and other methods of treatment.
1. Physiological situation: meditation requires sitting cross-legged for a long time, resulting in leg blood vessels are compressed, the blood does not flow smoothly and lead to numbness of the lower limbs. This is a normal phenomenon, which can be relieved by changing position or walking.
2. Lumbar disc herniation: If the patient himself has lumbar disc herniation, when meditating, compression of the nerve root, can also cause numbness of the legs. It is recommended to lie down on a hard bed, can take nutritive drugs, such as methylcobalamin, vitamin B1 and other treatments to alleviate the symptoms. If the symptoms are more serious, conservative treatment is ineffective, the feasibility of intervertebral disc nucleus pulposus removal surgery and other surgical treatments.
3. Cerebrovascular disease: such as cerebral infarction, generally in the resting state of the disease, so there are high blood pressure, diabetes and other underlying diseases of the elderly, such as meditation during the leg numbness, not except for cerebral infarction caused by. It is necessary to give atipase thrombolysis, aspirin antiplatelet aggregation, atorvastatin plaque stabilization, butylphthalide to improve circulation and other drugs symptomatic treatment.
Meditation leg numbness, except physiological conditions, it is recommended to consult a doctor in a timely manner, under the guidance of a professional doctor to clarify the diagnosis and treatment, do not blindly self-medication.