In recent years, more and more people are suffering from lumbar disc herniation, and some patients “flash their waist” if they don’t pay attention and have to rest in bed. If you are a lumbar disc herniation patient, in order to avoid recurrence, what should you pay attention to in your home life? Which labor you should “bypass”? What fitness methods are good for your back?
For patients with lumbar disc herniation, the general principle is to learn to use the correct waist, if necessary, should be appropriate to change the lifestyle.
1, household chores with care.
2, as far as possible to avoid or reduce bending back.
3, home life like washing dishes, chopping vegetables, stir-fry, mopping, sweeping or vacuuming the floor and other household chores should not be carried out. If you can not avoid, you can properly raise the sink, cutting board, stove top, etc., to avoid bending work.
4, from the ground when picking up things better squat, rather than bending down to pick up.
5, holding heavy objects preferably not more than 5 kg.
6.Be careful when doing the action of folding the quilt.
7.When picking up something from a high place, it is strictly forbidden to lean the body backwards and keep it upright.
Be careful during the acute illness
In the acute phase of the disease must be less active, reduce the number of lumbar flexion and extension, if necessary, you can wear a special medical waist to increase the abdominal pressure to ensure the stability of the lumbar spine. However, the medical waist should not be worn for a long time, so as not to cause lumbar muscle atrophy.
According to the latest theory, 72 hours of bed rest is enough for an attack of lumbar disc herniation. You’d better choose to sleep on a plank bed, reinforced Simmons can also be, to finger press, lying on the bed does not sink inward as the standard.
The following two cases, you have to rush to the hospital.
1, urinary disorders, sexual dysfunction in men, which is medically known as “cauda equina syndrome”, must be operated within 8 hours, and even then there are 20% of patients with lumbar disc herniation can not recover.
2, recurring patients also need surgery, the recent results after surgery are generally better.
Exercise should be scientific
Patients with lumbar disc herniation usually have to strengthen the exercise of the lumbar back muscles and abdominal muscles to enhance the stability of the spine. The most commonly used exercise posture is scientifically called “geese fly”, that is, lying prone on the bed with the head and legs cocked upwards at the same time. When the disease is not attacked, the activity is not restricted, but must first warm up, do more preparatory activities, exercise to use the waist correctly. Among the various fitness methods, swimming without weight-bearing is most suitable for patients with lumbar disc herniation.
Three precautions to keep in mind
1, lumbar disc herniation patients do not do a long time massage, easy to trigger the yellow ligament hypertrophy, resulting in lumbar spinal stenosis, is not conducive to recovery. The male comrades suffering from the disease do not “brave” to do heavy work.
2, pay attention to indoor and outdoor temperature difference is not too big, the temperature is suddenly high and low easily caused by lumbar disc herniation recurrence. Do not use the air conditioner in the summer “greedy cool”, indoor and outdoor temperature difference in about 5 ℃ is more appropriate.
3, lumbar disc herniation patients holding children is best close to their bodies, too far away will increase the burden on the waist.
What kind of bed should be chosen for patients with lumbar disc herniation?
About 1/3 of a normal person’s life is spent in bed, there are many types of beds, too soft beds under the pressure of human weight can be formed in the middle of the low, four high form, it is easy to cause increased muscle tension in the lumbar back, over time leads to local muscle, ligament balance disorders, directly affect the physiological curve of the lumbar spine, so that the disc is unevenly stressed. Therefore, from the perspective of treatment and prevention of lumbar disc protrusion (expansion) disease, the choice of wooden bed is more appropriate. But the simple application can also make the lumbar vertebrae produce mild bending, in humid areas due to poor permeability easily caused by mold, so the general use of bedding should be laid loose and suitable, so as to maintain the balance of the lumbar vertebrae to a large extent. In addition, the fire bed in the cold areas in the north of China has similar advantages to the wooden bed, and can be heated to keep out the cold and produce heat therapy, which helps to relax the spastic muscles and relieve pain.
Some patients with lumbar intervertebral disc herniation think that the lesion causing the disease has been removed after surgery and their bodies can be restored to be as healthy as normal.
In fact, surgery only removes the part of the lumbar intervertebral pelvis that is herniated, that is, those herniations that cannot be returned to their original position, and is a way to speed up the treatment process, that is, to restore the diseased organism with more serious symptoms to a desirable degree, in order to facilitate the patient to further consolidate and enhance the curative effect with other means of rehabilitation.
The following points should be noted after surgery.
1. After surgery, patients need to rest strictly in bed, and the bed should preferably be made of a hard board bed for about 4-5 weeks. It may depend on the patient’s age, physical condition and the extent of the resected tissue.
2, early turning after surgery should be assisted by nursing staff, and should not be turned strongly by themselves to ensure good healing of the lumbar fascia, muscles and ligaments.
3.After sufficient bed rest, you can do light activities on the ground under the protection of a suitable lumbar girth. If there are bone implants in the surgery, it is appropriate to fix them with a plaster undershirt for 3-4 months and wait for the implants to heal completely before moving on the ground.
4.During the recovery period, patients should gradually strengthen the exercise of low back muscle strength and pay attention to the correction of bad posture and self-protection of low back activities to prevent the recurrence of disease.
5.After surgery, brain workers should gradually resume work after 2-3 months, and manual workers should start working only after 3-4 months. Work should be light to heavy, work time from short to long, and avoid doing strong bending into weight-bearing activities.