What's the feeling of lumbar disc herniation?

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Health, there are more than 200 million patients with lumbar spondylosis in China, and patients with lumbar disc herniation account for 15.2% of the total population in China. It has been on the rise for many years, and it has expanded from middle-aged people to young people at an alarming rate year by year. Let's take a look at this. What symptoms do most of us have? Lumbar disc herniation is mainly due to the degeneration of various parts of lumbar disc (nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and cartilage plate), especially nucleus pulposus. Under the action of external factors, the annulus fibrosus of intervertebral disc ruptures, and the nucleus pulposus tissue protrudes backward or out of the spinal canal, which leads to the stimulation or compression of the adjacent spinal nerve roots, thus causing a series of clinical symptoms. The highest incidence rate of lumbar disc herniation is lumbar 4 ~ 5 and lumbar 5- sacrum 1, accounting for about 95%. 1 Low back pain: More than 95% of patients with lumbar disc herniation will feel tingling, usually accompanied by numbness and pain. Radiation pain of lower limbs: more than 80% cases have this disease, and the waist is prone to attack after trauma, fatigue and cold, lasting about 2~3 weeks at a time, and gradually relieving. Numbness of limbs: most of them are accompanied by low back pain and radiation pain of lower limbs, and only about 5% are numb and painless. The outer thigh is a common numbness area, which may have a burning sensation when touched, and the numbness will be aggravated after long-term investigation. 4. Cold sensation in limbs: A few cases (about 5% ~ 10%) feel cold in limbs, which is mainly caused by stimulation of sympathetic nerve fibers in spinal canal. Intermittent claudication: multidimensional intermittence, that is, pain and weakness in the lower limbs after walking for a certain distance, and pain will occur when bending over or squatting. 6 Scoliosis: Some lumbar vertebrae will bend to the left or right. Touch the spinous process in the middle of the back and you can find that the spinous process is crooked. Others: Depending on the location and degree of compression of the compressed spinal nerve root and the affected area of adjacent tissues, some rare symptoms may appear, such as sweating, limb swelling, sacrococcygeal pain, knee joint radiation pain, etc.

Lumbar disc herniation is not life-threatening. But if it is serious, it may lead to disability, and the lower body will not follow, so when you have lumbar disc herniation, you must treat it in time and pay attention to your health and aftercare.