Is excessive lumbar curvature a slip?

Many people always have many problems with their lumbar spine, which has a bad impact on their personal health. Therefore, everyone should pay attention to it in daily life. When the lumbar spine physiological curvature is too large, it is necessary to consider whether it is due to long-term bad living habits and often incorrect sitting posture, resulting in lumbar muscle strain. Whether it will cause slippage requires examination to be diagnosed.

Disease Pathology

The straightening of the lumbar spine's physiological curvature is mostly caused by long-term unreasonable posture. The initial symptoms are just incorrect posture, hunchback and local excessive force, which will cause chronic damage to the soft tissue over time and lead to chronic low back pain such as lumbar muscle strain, so it is also called postural low back pain. The straightening of the physiological curvature of the lumbar spine is the result of further accumulation on this basis. Therefore, correcting posture is the key among the keys, and reasonable posture is the basis and prerequisite for rehabilitation exercises. Otherwise, if the cause of the disease is not resolved, it will only recur, forming a vicious cycle and becoming increasingly serious.

Maintaining a sitting position or other postures for a long time will cause fatigue and damage to the ligaments, muscles and other tissues around the lumbar spine, reduce the stability of the joints between the lumbar vertebrae, and easily induce the straightening of the physiological curvature of the lumbar spine. Therefore, people who work in a fixed posture for a long time should change their body position in time and exercise to effectively prevent the occurrence of straightening of the physiological curvature of the lumbar spine.

The waist muscles are important auxiliary structures for maintaining the stability of the lumbar spine. Therefore, damage to the waist muscles will pull the lumbar spine, causing the lumbar spine structure to lose stability, thereby inducing the straightening of the lumbar spine's physiological curvature. In daily life, we should try our best to avoid damage to the waist muscles caused by external forces.

After degenerative changes occur in the lumbar spine and intervertebral disc, the pressure on the lumbar intervertebral disc also decreases, when the annulus fibrosus of the intervertebral disc ruptures and the nucleus pulposus protrudes. It will cause corresponding changes in the physiological structure of the lumbar spine, causing the intervertebral space of the corresponding lumbar spine to become narrow in front and wide in the back, and then the physiological curvature of the lumbar spine will become straight.

Treatment

1. Minimally invasive treatment: the preferred method for patients with lumbar disc herniation

The domestic minimally invasive treatment technology for lumbar diseases is becoming increasingly mature. Minimally invasive treatment technologies include: "German trioxygen nucleus pulposus ablation, GRT radiofrequency target thermocoagulation, ozone therapy, micro-light pain treatment, non-invasive release therapy, etc." The advantages of minimally invasive treatment: no open surgery, reduced pain, fast recovery, and high cure rate.

2. Conservative treatment

During clinical consultation, a small number of patients receive conservative treatments, such as acupuncture, massage, traction, physical therapy, etc. These are non-invasive treatments that are safe, simple, easy, and low-cost. Patients with first-time illness or mild symptoms should mainly receive conservative treatments, mainly including bed rest, drug therapy, massage, traction, physical therapy, and blockade. The biggest disadvantages of conservative treatment are that it is slow to show results, time-consuming and has a low cure rate.

3. Open Surgery

It is suitable for patients who have not responded to conservative treatment and minimally invasive treatment or whose lesions are large in area and severe in degree. Since the entire process is performed under direct vision, surgery can completely relieve nerve compression and loosen adhesions, and the effect after surgery is obvious. The disadvantage is that it causes great trauma, destroys the stability of the lumbar spine, and generally requires internal fixation with metal materials, so the cost is high. Surgery itself carries certain risks and complications. After surgery, patients often need to stay in bed for more than two months, and the recovery time is long.