Symptoms of lumbar disc bulging

Many advertisements on TV now also talk about the problem of lumbar disc bulging. Because some people often feel numbness in their bodies, and sometimes they often experience pain in the waist and back, especially when walking. It causes great pain to the patients. Below we will introduce the symptoms of lumbar disc bulging in detail to help you better treat it.

What will happen if you have lumbar disc bulging? What are the dangers? I believe that patients with lumbar disc bulging can definitely feel it deeply. Therefore, I recommend that patients who have not suffered from lumbar disc bulging should take more preventive care in their daily lives. Moreover, understanding the symptoms of lumbar disc herniation will also help people detect the disease earlier and treat it earlier.

The symptoms of lumbar disc bulging are as follows:

1. Numbness and abnormal sensation: After lumbar disc herniation, it can cause local compression and involved compression in the contact area of ​​the nerve roots, which compresses the fibers and blood vessels of the nerve roots themselves and causes ischemia and hypoxia. Therefore, abnormal sensations such as pain and numbness appear in the area innervated by the affected nerve roots.

2. Pain in the lower back and back: This pain occurs before leg pain or at the same time. The pain is mainly in the lower back or lumbosacral area. The main cause of the pain is that the intervertebral disc herniation stimulates the sinus nerve fibers in the outer layer of the annulus fibrosus and the posterior longitudinal ligament. The pain is deep and difficult to locate, and is usually dull, stabbing or radiating.

3. Muscle paralysis: If lumbar disc herniation compresses the nerve roots for a long time, it may cause ischemia, hypoxia and degeneration of the nerve roots, resulting in nerve paralysis and muscle paralysis. Herniation of the L4 and L5 intervertebral disc can cause L5 nerve root paralysis, resulting in paralysis of the tibialis anterior, peroneus long and brevis, extensor hallucis longus and extensor digitorum muscles. After L5-S1 intervertebral disc herniation, the S1 nerve root is affected and paralyzed, resulting in paralysis of the triceps surae.

4. Radiating pain in the lower limbs: Since lumbar disc herniation mostly occurs in the L4, 5 and L5-S1 intervertebral spaces, and the sciatic nerve comes from the L4, 5 and S1-3 nerve roots, patients with lumbar disc herniation often have sciatica or it starts in the buttocks and gradually radiates to the posterior and lateral thigh, lateral calf, dorsum of the foot, lateral sole of the foot, and toes. Central protrusion often causes bilateral sciatica. The electric-like radiating pain in the lower limbs worsens when the intra-abdominal pressure increases due to coughing, sneezing, urination or defecation.

After reading the above introduction, I believe you have a certain understanding of the symptoms of lumbar disc herniation. Here, we suggest that when you have these symptoms, you must not underestimate them. You should go to a regular hospital for a detailed examination to diagnose your disease, treat your disease as soon as possible, and eventually recover.