How is spinal intermittent claudication prevented?

  Intermittent claudication of spinal origin is caused by compression of the spinal cord, mostly due to long-term compression of the spinal cord by degenerative disorders of the cervical or thoracic spine, resulting in impaired blood supply and hypoxia. When walking for a longer period of time, a sensation of tethering in the thorax, abdomen or lower extremities occurs, so that the patient cannot walk for a long period of time and needs to rest for a few minutes to improve the symptoms before continuing to walk. These patients have a positive cone bundle sign and usually walk with an unstable gait or a feeling of stepping on cotton on the soles of the feet, which is easily distinguished when thinking of this disease. In the early stage of the lesion, the cone bundle sign is not obvious, but it can be positive in the period of intermittent claudication. In cases where cervical and lumbar spine stenosis are also present, the lesion site causing the symptoms can be identified by medical history and physical examination.  1.Pay attention to hyperlipidemia.  2.Treat diabetes mellitus.  3.Treat other cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension.  4. Quit smoking.  5.Moderate exercise, preferably daily, but stop and rest if lower limb pain occurs. Functional exercise: flexion of the lumbar spine increases the volume and effective cross-sectional area of the spinal canal and reduces the compression of the cauda equina. The increase in abdominal muscle strength can also antagonize the mechanical pressure on the spinal canal to which the nerve tissue is subjected.  6, generally take the flexed hip, flexed knee position side lying, rest 3 to 5 weeks symptoms can be relieved or disappear. For the elderly, long-term bed rest is likely to cause muscle atrophy, deep vein thrombosis and pneumonia and other complications, it is recommended that it should not exceed 2 to 3 weeks.