What are the symptoms of lumbar spine disease

Nowadays, in life and work, many people need to sit or maintain a posture for a long time. At the same time, because we are very busy every day, we have less time to exercise. This will cause some diseases to our bodies in a long time. The most common injury is to the lumbar spine. Nowadays, more and more people are suffering from lumbar spine diseases, and they are getting younger. There are many symptoms when you suffer from lumbar disease, and we must pay attention to it.

1. What are the symptoms of lumbar spine disease?

1. Low back pain and decreased lumbar support function:

This type of symptoms is mostly caused by degeneration of the intervertebral disc, wear and hyperplasia of the lumbar facet joints, lumbar scoliosis, lumbar spondylolisthesis, etc., and is characterized by worsening after standing fatigue and relief after bed rest.

2. Lower limb pain and numbness, intermittent claudication:

This type of symptom is mainly related to intervertebral disc herniation, bone hyperplasia or spinal canal stenosis compressing the nerves and affecting the nerve blood supply. The leg pain caused by typical lumbar disease is often manifested as sciatica, that is, pain starting from the waist or buttocks, radiating from the back of the thigh and the outside of the calf to the foot. The main symptom of intermittent claudication is that after walking for a distance, the lower limbs experience soreness, numbness, swelling and pain, as if filled with lead, making it difficult to walk. At this time, the symptoms can be relieved after bending over, sitting down or squatting to rest for a while, but they will worsen again after starting to walk.

2. Nursing methods for lumbar vertebrae lesions

1. Keep your waist warm

If the waist and back are exposed to adverse factors such as humidity and cold, it is easy to cause spasms and tension in the waist and back muscles, which may lead to recurrence of lumbar spondylosis. Especially in autumn and winter, you should add clothes as the weather changes and pay attention to keeping your waist, back and lower limbs warm.

2. Maintain correct posture

If you maintain a correct sitting posture in your daily life or work, you can effectively reduce the load on the lumbar spine and delay the degree of degenerative changes in the lumbar spine, thereby effectively preventing the recurrence of lumbar disease.

3. Keep exercising

In your daily leisure time, you must insist on exercising, especially exercising the functions of the waist and back and exercising flexion, extension, and rotation, which can increase the toughness and strength of soft tissues such as the waist muscles and ligaments, and effectively prevent the recurrence of lumbar disease.

4. Avoid waist trauma

Based on years of clinical observation, it is found that sprain and trauma of the waist are the direct causes of the occurrence and recurrence of lumbar disease. In daily life, try to avoid trauma and sprain of the waist, which can effectively prevent the recurrence of lumbar disease.

3. Exercise methods for lumbar vertebrae disease

1. Draping method

Use an object such as a door frame or horizontal bar to do hanging exercises. Take once in the morning and evening every day. Suspension exercise is actually a continued traction therapy, which not only relaxes the waist and other parts of the body, but also enhances local blood circulation and metabolism.

2. Bend over

Waist rotation exercise. It includes exercises such as bending forward and backward, bending to the left and right sides, and turning the waist left and right, and should be done once in the morning and evening every day. Proceed at a moderate speed and with a little effort, and proceed step by step.

3. Massage

Mainly massage the Shenshu points (on both sides of the waist), still twice a day. Massage until you feel soreness that spreads to your lower limbs. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the Shenshu point belongs to the kidney meridian. Regularly massaging it can not only strengthen the kidneys but also eliminate diseases such as low back pain.

4. Maintenance method

The main thing is to organically combine doctor's treatment with daily maintenance, which will achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Pay attention to the "ten don'ts", namely: don't sit for too long, don't stand for too long, don't carry weight, don't bend over (in the acute phase), don't hold children, don't wear high heels, don't lower your head, don't sit on a low stool, don't overwork, and don't catch a cold (waist).

Two protections, namely: waist protection (wrap waist with paper-thin plastic foam material in winter to keep warm and absorb moisture), back protection (wear wool vest and cotton vest, etc.).