Is it easy to walk with lumbar disc herniation?

Walking exercise is good for lumbar disc herniation. Of course, you should pay attention to avoid fatigue. So you should walk moderately and not too much. Walking can relieve the pressure on your waist and back. The following method is a good way to relieve pain. In addition to walking, you should strengthen care, such as sleeping on a hard bed, keeping your waist and back warm, etc.

Daily care

1. To prevent lumbar disc herniation, you should be careful not to maintain a posture for a long time, avoid excessive fatigue, and do some exercise after working for a period of time.

2. Patients with lumbar disc herniation should sleep on a hard bed with moderate hardness and avoid watching TV for a long time after meals. This is also a more effective preventive measure for lumbar disc herniation.

3. To prevent lumbar disc herniation, you should avoid cold and humid living and working environments, and pay attention to avoid the recurrence of lumbar disc herniation during the seasons of cold and heat.

4. Patients with lumbar disc herniation should use their abdominal muscles more when walking, and should not stand with their legs together for a long time.

5. To prevent lumbar disc herniation, you should pay attention to "slow down" your movements. Before exercising or doing heavy physical work, or after getting up in the morning, the muscles and joints of all parts of the body are in a relaxed state. If you make sudden movements at this time, it is possible to damage the intervertebral disc and easily cause lumbar disc herniation.

6. Warm your waist before going to bed to ensure quality sleep. Extremely relax your waist so that the pressure inside the lumbar disc can be fully released during high-quality sleep, allowing the nucleus pulposus and annulus fibrosus to receive better nutrition, delaying the occurrence of degeneration and thus preventing lumbar disc herniation.

7. Pay attention to developing good waist habits at work to reduce the chance of lumbar disc herniation due to uncoordinated waist movement.

8. In terms of diet, in principle, nutritional balance should be maintained, and special attention should be paid to eating more foods containing calcium, protein, vitamin B, vitamin C, and vitamin E.

Acupuncture treatment of lumbar disc herniation

1. Body acupuncture: Commonly used acupoints: Shenshu, Baihuanshu, Huantiao, Chengfu, Yinmen, Weizhong, and Yanglingquan.

Method: Select 3 to 5 acupoints each time and use the drainage method. The acupoints selected are mainly commonly used acupoints. Depending on the pain, Jiaji points, Ashi points and acupoints along the meridians can be added.

2. Ear acupuncture: Commonly used points: sciatic, adrenal gland, buttocks, Shenmen, lumbar vertebrae, and sacral vertebrae.

Method: Use medium to strong stimulation and leave the needle in for 10 to 10 minutes. Acupuncture therapy is used on acupoints such as Shenshu, Huantiao, Weizhong, etc., once a day, and 10 times constitute a course of treatment.

Acupuncture treatment is guided by the basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine. It uses needles and moxibustion to perform acupuncture and moxibustion on the acupoints of the human body to achieve the purpose of curing diseases through the function of meridians. Acupuncture has the functions of harmonizing yin and yang, unblocking meridians, and strengthening the body to eliminate evil.