Is electrotherapy useful for lumbar disc herniation?

Electrothermal therapy is a physical therapy method that mainly relies on electric current to achieve its effect. It can speed up blood circulation and thus achieve a certain effect in relieving pain and activating blood circulation. Experts told us that electrothermal therapy has a certain effect in relieving pain in the treatment of lumbar disc herniation. Therefore, patients can undergo this treatment under the guidance of a doctor. Patients with lumbar disc herniation should adopt multiple methods for comprehensive treatment, which will achieve the best results.

What are the treatments for lumbar disc herniation?

1. Psychiatric treatment:

Psychotherapy is one of the more critical treatments for lumbar disc herniation. Doctors should explain the condition in detail to patients to relieve their excessive tension and fear about the disease. Let patients establish correct concepts, which will be more conducive to the development of treatment.

2. Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment:

Traditional Chinese medicine uses a combination of acupuncture, massage, cupping, needle knife, scraping, oral and external application of Chinese medicine, functional exercise, psychological counseling and other comprehensive therapies to treat lumbar disc herniation, which can achieve good results. If the symptoms of spinal cord and spinal nerve root compression are severe, or if the symptoms worsen after 2-3 weeks of conservative treatment, surgical treatment may be considered.

3. Western medicine treatment:

Drug treatment for lumbar disc herniation is generally only used as an auxiliary treatment with the main purpose of relieving symptoms. For patients whose pain symptoms are unbearable, who cannot lie flat or fall asleep, they can be given appropriate anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs, such as dexamethasone, or antispasmodic and analgesic tincture can be applied externally to relieve local pain. Relieving the patient's pain as much as possible will facilitate the implementation of other rehabilitation treatments.

4. Surgical treatment:

Surgical treatment of lumbar disc herniation is an effective method that can more thoroughly relieve nerve compression and eliminate radicular symptoms. With the continuous development of minimally invasive surgery, minimally invasive surgery has caused relatively less damage to the human body and improved safety, and has become an increasingly perfect treatment method. However, many patients are still afraid of simple surgery and are unwilling to undergo surgical treatment, which causes delays in the treatment of the disease and affects the efficacy. The introduction of "Radio Frequency Target Ablation (PIRFT)" is an internationally advanced minimally invasive technology, hailed as the greatest miracle of spinal surgery in the 21st century. It has changed the history of treating herniated discs and is highly effective in treating herniated discs. It has epoch-making significance in the history of minimally invasive spinal treatment.