It is good to wear a girdle for several hours every day. Generally speaking, there is no specific time limit, mainly for sedentary and sports. Waist protection is not recommended. It is recommended to wear it during the day and it is best not to wear it at night. Belt is a kind of brace, which plays a protective role in some waist diseases such as lumbar muscle strain and lumbar disc herniation. If you have a rest, such as sleeping, you don't need to use a belt. If the symptoms are not obviously relieved after using the belt to rest, it is still recommended to go to the hospital for re-examination. Lumbar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be performed to clarify the nature and degree of the disease.
The role of waist protection is to avoid bending over to protect the waist and play a supporting role. Generally, it needs to be worn frequently. Wearing a waist protector will not cause muscle atrophy. There is no specific time, but you can wear it for a few hours when standing or sitting for a long time. Don't wear it all the time. Long-term wearing will cause muscle atrophy of lumbar muscles to varying degrees, and stiffness of lumbar joints to varying degrees, leading to decreased mobility. Thereby reducing the soft column function of waist muscles and making patients feel dependent over time. Once you leave the belt, the pain will get worse, or if you lift the belt, the atrophied muscles will be weak and unable to adapt to activities without the protection of the belt, and may cause new injuries and strains. This is undoubtedly harmful to the recovery of patients.
Stay in bed for a few days in the acute stage of lumbar process. Under the action of trauma or long-term stress load, lumbar intervertebral disc will protrude, resulting in a series of clinical symptoms. Most patients have only mild low back pain. When intervertebral disc herniation compresses nerve roots or dural sac, it can cause pain, numbness, weakness, perineal sensory disturbance, defecation dysfunction and so on. Usually in the acute stage of lumbar disc herniation, rest, physical therapy, functional exercise, drug treatment and other treatments can be carried out, and it usually takes about two weeks to stay in bed. If conservative treatment is ineffective, symptoms are serious or there is dysfunction of defecation and defecation, surgery is usually needed. Surgical treatment, according to different patients can choose minimally invasive surgery or open surgery.
In the acute stage of lumbar disc herniation, patients will have severe pain. In the meantime, patients had better stay in bed to help improve their condition. Lying in bed means lying absolutely on a hard bed (the hard bed here refers to a hard mattress and mattress, rather than the "bed board" that many patients and their families think). In addition to going to the toilet, other activities are lying in bed. When going to the toilet, you need to wear a waistline to protect your waist and avoid excessive waist activity.