How to treat lumbar disc herniation? What are the methods for treating lumbar disc herniation?

As far as the current medical cognition is concerned:

Lumbar disc herniation is a symptom but not a disease, and generally does not require treatment.

When the prominent lumbar intervertebral disc compresses the nerve, causing low back pain (compression of sinus nerve), lower limb pain, numbness, weakness (compression of sciatic nerve or femoral nerve) and dysuria (compression of cauda equina nerve innervating sphincter), it is considered as lumbar intervertebral disc herniation.

There are two treatments:

1. The physical mechanism of removing nerve compression is surgical removal of the protruding intervertebral disc.

2. Conservative treatment: The purpose is to reduce the dehydration of the herniated intervertebral disc and relieve the compression; ② Eliminate inflammation and edema of nerve roots.

① Patients with mild symptoms can take oral drugs, diclofenac sodium capsules or tablets, celecoxib capsules and neurotropin tablets, and follow the doctor's advice. Pay attention to whether you have gastrointestinal diseases or allergies.

②? The heavier one can be injected intravenously, which is decided by the doctor. Physical therapy such as sound, light, electricity, magnetism and massage can be added.

③ Conservative treatment is ineffective, and the symptoms are serious or very serious, so surgical treatment should be considered.

About radical cure:

1. Young patients usually only remove the herniated or possibly herniated intervertebral disc, and the remaining intervertebral disc may be herniated by this method, that is, relapse. But this method has little damage and quick recovery.

2. If you are older, you can completely remove the diseased intervertebral disc and add internal fixation, which is not easy to relapse. This method is very harmful and the recovery is slow.

3. Even if all the diseased intervertebral discs are removed, there are only 1 or 2 intervertebral discs, and there are 6 intervertebral discs in the lumbar spine. Theoretically, they can all stand out.

So radical cure is almost impossible, but don't worry, because our doctors or patients all have a common desire, that is, the symptoms disappear (clinical cure) and will not cause harm to the human body in the future. That's enough.

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