What are the symptoms of thoracic spine compression of nerves?

When a patient suffers from lumbar disc herniation, the nerves are often compressed due to lumbar problems, which is quite harmful to the human body. It often leads to poor blood circulation, a drop in temperature in the lower limbs, and radiating pain in the lower limbs. In more serious cases, it can cause scoliosis, making it difficult for the patient to move around. For example, bending and stretching will be seriously affected.

Symptoms of thoracic spine compression

1. The temperature of the affected limb drops: As the protruding part compresses the blood vessels, the temperature of the affected limb drops suddenly, causing the patient's affected limb to often feel cold and the dorsalis pedis artery pulsation to be weak.

2. Radiating pain in the lower limbs: In the early stage of the disease, the pain first starts in the buttocks, gradually radiating to the posterior thigh, the outer side of the calf, and may even develop to the outer side of the dorsum of the foot, the heel or the sole of the foot, seriously affecting the patient's normal standing and walking.

3. Scoliosis: Generally speaking, most patients will have varying degrees of lumbar scoliosis. The direction of the scoliosis can indicate the location of the protrusion and its relationship to the nerve root.

4. Lumbar movement disorder: When exercising or exercising, the patient's waist movement will be affected by various aspects, especially when stretching or bending, severe pain may occur.

5. Low back pain: According to clinical investigations, most patients have a history of low back pain or a history of repeated low back pain attacks. Because each patient's physical condition is different, the severity of low back pain is also different. Patients with mild symptoms can do appropriate exercise, while patients with severe symptoms need to stay in bed and rest.

Treatment

If the sensory impairment is relatively mild, conservative treatment can be used first, such as paying attention to rest, sleeping on a hard bed, doing physical therapy and traction, etc.

The sensory impairment is quite severe, which should be due to the obvious compression of the spinal cord by the protruding thoracic intervertebral disc. In this case, it is best to undergo surgical treatment to remove the protruding intervertebral disc in order to achieve the goal of radical cure. It can be treated with traction, physical therapy, infrared, and massage.

Lift both lower limbs at the same time, stretch and lift the upper body backward, lift both ends of the body off the bed at the same time, and do the above movements more than ten times, and exercise for 30 minutes every day.

Don't work with your head down or on the computer for long periods of time. The pillow should not be too high or too low, and a mattress that is too soft or too hard will cause problems. Try to choose pillows and mattresses that have a decompression effect, which will help protect the spine to a certain extent. Do appropriate exercise and avoid strenuous exercise, because walking is the best exercise for spinal patients. It is economical and effective.