Sciatic nerve cyst

The sciatic nerve is undoubtedly the largest nerve in the human body. It is distributed throughout the body, which means it can innervate many areas of the body, such as common motor areas and various sensory areas. The most common conditions involving the sciatic nerve are sciatic pain and sciatic cysts. Surgery may be required for severe sciatic nerve cysts.

If it is a cyst on the buttocks, it is usually an ischial tuberosity cyst. Non-surgical treatments include puncture and flushing, and alcohol injection, but they may not be treated thoroughly, so surgical treatment is still required. Local anesthesia is injected at the puncture site and has no effect on the whole body. However, it has been three years and the cyst is benign, so I will deal with the cyst after the breastfeeding period is over. Local anesthesia does not affect breastfeeding. If you are really worried, you can use a breast pump to suck out the milk 1 to 2 days after the puncture or surgery and feed your baby some milk powder. Breastfeed normally after 2 days. Although the cysts appear and feel superficial, they are actually deep inside, so surgery must be performed in an operating room. Generally, hospitalization is required, and the specific cost is about 3,000 yuan.

The sciatic nerve is the most widely distributed nerve in the body, so the motor and sensory areas it can innervate are very wide. Sciatica refers to pain in the sciatic nerve pathway and its distribution area.

It needs to be made clear that sciatica is not a disease, but just a symptom, just like a stuffy nose, which is a symptom of a cold. What medical conditions may cause sciatica? Sciatica caused by lumbar spinal stenosis: more common in middle-aged men. In the early stages, there is often "intermittent claudication", in which lower limb pain worsens after walking for a period of time, but the symptoms are alleviated or disappear after bending over to walk or resting. Sciatica caused by lumbar disc herniation: There is often a long history of recurrent low back pain or a history of heavy physical labor, and the disease often occurs acutely after a low back injury or bending over to do labor. In addition to the symptoms and signs of sciatica, there are also lumbar muscle spasms, limited lumbar spine movement, etc. There may be obvious tenderness and radiating pain in the intervertebral space at the site of intervertebral disc herniation.

Sciatica caused by lumbar radiculitis: The onset is generally acute, and the damaged area often exceeds the area innervated by the sciatic nerve, manifesting as weakness, pain, and mild muscle atrophy of the entire lower limbs. In addition, the Achilles tendon reflex and knee tendon reflex are often weakened or disappeared. In addition, spinal cord trauma, tumors, pelvic and pelvic diseases may also cause sciatica.

When sciatica is caused by lumbar problems, the pain is usually persistent and worsens in paroxysmal forms. Generally, intermittent pain rarely occurs. Patients will feel pain like electric shock or knife cutting, which is severe and unbearable. The pain will worsen during activities and ease after rest. The pain on the affected side will alternate between worsening and easeing. The symptoms will worsen at night. Any actions that increase cerebrospinal fluid pressure, such as coughing, sneezing and defecation, can aggravate sciatica.

Once sciatica occurs, it is recommended that patients first go to the orthopedics department of a regular hospital to determine the specific cause of the pain and see if drug treatment is needed based on the examination results. Patients with mild symptoms can receive rehabilitation training to alleviate the symptoms.

In order to relieve the discomfort in the waist and legs, patients can use the technique of vibrating the abdominal muscles. That is, use one palm to vibrate the abdomen of the body. When operating, pay attention to using the rapid swing of the wrist joint to drive the vibration of the side palm.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this method has the effects of regulating qi and lungs, balancing yin and yang, and dispersing wind and activating blood circulation.

Fist rolling on the lower limbs is also a massage technique you can try. This technique requires the patient to make a fist with one hand and press his or her lower limbs, from top to bottom, repeatedly, to ultimately produce the therapeutic effects of regulating qi, relieving pain, unblocking meridians and dispersing cold.

Similar to this is the lower limb flexion technique, in which you can hold the patient's calf with one hand and flex it forward with the other hand. It should be noted that the force should not be too great at this time, and it is best to use a force that the patient can tolerate. This massage method can eliminate fatigue in the patient's lower limbs, thus promoting blood circulation in the body.