Precautions after lumbar disc herniation surgery

Lumbar disc herniation is a very common lumbar disease clinically. Its main clinical manifestation is pain. Therefore, when you have lumbar pain for no reason, it is recommended that you first check for lumbar disc herniation. There are currently many methods for the treatment of lumbar disc herniation, but the most effective method is still surgical treatment. So do you know the precautions after lumbar disc herniation surgery?

1. Pay attention to your working posture, avoid injuries caused by physiological degeneration of the intervertebral disc, and pay attention to labor protection. Change bad working posture, avoid bending over for a long time and excessive weight bearing, so as not to accelerate the degeneration of intervertebral disc.

Second, you should sleep on a hard bed more often, keep your back and waist in a straight line, avoid twisting, and avoid sleeping on a soft bed to reduce the pressure on the intervertebral disc.

3. Pay attention to keeping warm, avoid catching cold and eating raw or cold food, strengthen the protection of the waist and back, wear a waist protector, and perform functional exercises under the guidance of a doctor. At the same time, if you find pain in your lower back, back, weakness in your limbs, difficulty walking, or numbness, you should immediately go to the hospital and ask a specialist for further examination and treatment. The symptoms caused by the nucleus pulposus being squeezed by the vertebral body and the fibrous disc compressing the spinal canal nerves are called lumbar disc herniation. Chinese medicine can be used to nourish the kidneys and strengthen the waist and retract the nucleus pulposus to completely cure it, and it can have a better therapeutic effect when combined with topical medications.

4. Regulate your diet. After the operation, the patient can take some kidney-tonifying and waist-strengthening foods to increase the function of the waist muscles. They can eat eggs, steamed eggs, mutton soup, pork kidneys, lean meat soup, etc. The diet should be light and easy to digest. Eat more foods rich in crude fiber to stimulate gastrointestinal motility and prevent constipation.

The above four items are all precautions after lumbar disc herniation surgery. Only by following the above requirements can lumbar disc herniation recover as soon as possible. In addition, in order to better ensure the rehabilitation effect after lumbar disc herniation surgery, patients should not engage in heavy physical labor within one year after the surgery, especially lifting heavy objects. If the weight is too heavy, it will easily lead to recurrence of lumbar disc herniation.