Daily rehabilitation considerations for lumbar disc herniation

Most patients with lumbar disc herniation are young adults between the ages of 20-40. In recent years, with the diversification of lifestyle changes, patients show an increasing trend, which seriously affects their normal work and daily life. Although you need medication or surgery after suffering from this disease, but the usual care is more important, the following is a comprehensive introduction to some daily rehabilitation precautions, I hope to help you recover health soon: dietary arrangements. The lumbar intervertebral disc protrusion patients due to illness and reduce a certain amount of activity, so the diet intake should also be properly reduced, gastrointestinal peristalsis is slow, digestive function is reduced, so the diet should be reasonably arranged, pay attention to a small number of meals, eat more vegetables and fruits and legumes, eat more food with high calcium content, such as milk, dairy products, shrimp, kelp, sesame paste, soy products, etc., conducive to calcium supplementation, but the lumbar spine has grown Patients with bone spurs (osteophytes) should not take in too much calcium. Minimize the consumption of meat and fatty foods, as they tend to cause dry stools and aggravate the condition due to straining to defecate. The correct standing posture should be eyes level, chest up, straight waist, legs upright, the distance between the two feet is about the same as the width of the pelvis, so that the whole body gravity is evenly transmitted from the spine, pelvis to the lower limbs, and then from the two lower limbs to the feet, in order to become a real “foot on the ground”, which can effectively prevent the nucleus pulposus from protruding again. Standing should not be too long, should be appropriate in situ activities, especially the low back activities, in order to release the low back muscle fatigue. The correct sitting posture should be straight upper body, tuck in the abdomen, double knees together, if possible, can be under the feet of a pedal or stirrups, so that the knee joint slightly higher than the hip. After sitting for a long time should also be active to loosen the muscles of the lower limbs. Usually work life should be combined with work and rest, pay attention to the correct posture, avoid bending over to lift heavy objects.