Lumbar disc herniation

Long-term bending over, sitting for a long time, trauma, etc. may lead to a disease called lumbar disc herniation. Moreover, with the changes in people's lifestyles, lumbar disc herniation is no longer limited to middle-aged and elderly people. Many young friends are now suffering from lumbar disc herniation. Lumbar disc herniation is very painful when it occurs, and if it is serious, it will directly affect the patient's life.

The most important thing is that there is currently no particularly effective method to cure lumbar disc herniation. Therefore, if you want to ensure that the disease does not recur, you must pay attention to the care of lumbar disc herniation treatment in normal times and pay attention to disease health care.

Moderate work intensity, balance between work and rest

People who engage in mental work tend to keep the lumbar spine in an abnormal position (usually sitting) for a long time, which leads to local fatigue and problems with the lumbar spine over time. For this group of people, it is necessary to increase breaks between work appropriately, use the rest time to strengthen physical exercise, eliminate local muscle fatigue, and prevent and relieve lumbar strain.

Maintain good posture

Chronic strain of the lumbar soft tissue is the pathological basis for lumbar spondylosis. Bad sitting posture in life is one of the main causes of chronic strain. Therefore, correcting bad posture in daily life is of great significance to the prevention of lumbar spondylosis. For example, if people work at a desk for a long time without developing good habits, they will often unconsciously develop a hunched back and a bent head posture, or they may habitually curl up on the sofa when watching TV. These movements put the lumbar spine in an abnormal physiological curvature, which is a great damage to the lumbar spine and can easily cause strain on the waist muscles, ligaments and other tissues. Developing good habits is extremely important to reduce the occurrence of lumbar disease.

Moderate physical exercise

For people with lumbar spondylosis, proper physical exercise can improve the function of lumbar intervertebral joints, enhance the tension of lumbar muscles, ligaments, joint capsules and other tissues, strengthen the stability of the lumbar spine, improve lumbar blood circulation, and correct poor body posture. Long-term persistence can help improve the symptoms of lumbar spondylosis, consolidate the therapeutic effect, and reduce recurrence. Therefore, medical physical exercise plays an important role in the prevention and treatment of lumbar spondylosis.

Keep your waist warm to avoid cold

For people with low back pain and lumbar spondylosis, catching cold is often an important factor inducing the onset of low back pain and lumbar spondylosis. The cold and humid environment can affect the local blood circulation of the waist and back, thereby leading to lumbar strain and aseptic inflammation of the waist and back muscle fascia and ligaments. Therefore, keeping the waist warm is important to prevent the occurrence of low back pain. For example, dry clothes and quilts frequently, avoid or try to take fewer cold showers, avoid sleeping in the wind, avoid seeking coolness, and avoid staying in wet places for a long time.

Strengthening protection during work

When doing heavy physical labor, especially when resisting, lifting, moving or carrying heavy objects, you should pay attention to your posture (when lifting heavy objects, you should keep your upper body straight and maintain the lumbar lordosis curve, because the pressure on the intervertebral disc when lifting heavy objects is much greater than when you lift heavy objects with your upper body straight). It is recommended to use a waist belt when doing heavy physical labor, and take off the waist belt after work to move the waist moderately to adjust the balance of the waist muscles and ligaments.

If you find yourself having symptoms similar to lumbar disc herniation, you must go to the hospital for diagnosis and take good self-care for lumbar disc herniation. Although it is impossible to completely get rid of lumbar disc herniation, it can prevent its recurrence and save you from the pain of the disease.