What to do if lumbar disc herniation causes leg cramps

Nowadays, many people suffer from lumbar disc herniation. There are many causes of this disease. People suffering from lumbar disc herniation are not restricted by age and gender, and the age of people suffering from the disease tends to decrease. Many patients will experience leg cramps when they suffer from lumbar disc herniation, which can also cause inconvenience in their movements. Therefore, we should strengthen physical exercise and improve physical fitness in our lives.

What to do if lumbar disc herniation causes leg cramps

1. As for leg cramps caused by lumbar disc herniation, because leg cramps are caused by compression of nerves after spinal deformation, you can use massage to reposition the spine, so that the nerves will not be compressed and leg cramps will not occur.

2. In addition, patients should also know that electrotherapy is a general step in this treatment, which can relieve the patient's current symptoms such as low back pain and waist stiffness. Generally speaking, the treatment of this disease cannot be cured in one go, and usually requires long-term treatment.

3. If the patient cures his disease through long-term rehabilitation training, the symptoms of leg cramps can be relieved, but this time is relatively long, and the patient also needs to keep some medicines at home to prevent emergency situations.

Is leg cramp the cause of lumbar disc herniation?

Patients with lumbar disc herniation may also experience muscle spasms, which are more common after muscle contraction. This is a lumbar disc herniation with calf cramping as the main symptom. It is caused by long-term compression of the nerve roots, which leads to fibrosis of the epineurium or nerve bundles, resulting in an increase in the stress threshold of the nerve root sensory fibers. Therefore, when you often have calf cramps, you should pay attention and do not regard this cramp as an ordinary cramp. This phenomenon may also be the cause of lumbar disc herniation.

If you experience frequent leg cramps, you must go to a professional hospital for examination in time, because if it is really caused by lumbar disc herniation, severe cases may cause lameness or even paralysis. Therefore, everyone must not take it lightly and ignore these minor illnesses.