Minimally invasive lumbar spine surgery is more common intervertebral foramenoscopy surgery, radiofrequency ablation, etc. After minimally invasive surgery, foot pain is still considered to be caused by postoperative nerve root edema, nerve root injury, etc. According to the specific conditions of the relevant drug therapy, such as painkillers, anti-swelling medications, and nutritive nerve drugs.
1. Painkillers: If the pain is severe, patients are advised to take painkillers for treatment, the more commonly used ones are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen and opioids such as dihydrocodeine.
2. Anti-swelling drugs: Because the nerve root may be edematous after the surgery, so it produces radioactive pain in the foot. You can take medicines with anti-edema effect to reduce the edema of the nerve root, such as sodium heptaphyllum saponin tablets and so on.
3. Nutritional nerve drugs: Because foot pain is mostly caused by nerve root stimulation or injury, so you can take drugs with nutritional nerve effect for treatment, common in the clinic are methylcobalamin, vitamin B1 and so on.
It is recommended that patients go to the hospital, improve the auxiliary examination, in order to clarify the condition, the drug has certain side effects and contraindications, so need to be used under the guidance of a professional physician.