How many times a day to apply hot packs for herniated discs

Lumbar disc herniation may lead to the symptoms of back and leg pain, for the painful parts can take hot compress treatment, promote local blood circulation, is conducive to relieving pain symptoms. Hot compresses can be applied 3-4 times a day for 10-20 minutes each time. In the hot compresses to protect the skin, you can pad a dry towel to carry out hot compress treatment, to prevent skin damage. Hot compress treatment can only relieve local symptoms, for the lumbar disc herniation of pathological changes, the therapeutic effect is not very obvious. In addition to applying hot compresses, the treatment of lumbar disc herniation should be directed to the herniated part, including systematic and comprehensive conservative treatment, and even surgical treatment. So the lumbar intervertebral disc herniation hot compress treatment, mainly to play a symptomatic relief of pain treatment effect, the protruding localization should also be comprehensive, systematic treatment.