After hearing what I said, the patient quickly asked me how to treat it and whether to have an operation. Are therapeutic ointments and therapeutic instruments useful? Can you treat it with qigong? After listening to her questions one after another, I told her to calm down first, and then told her that lumbar disc herniation was not as horrible as I thought, and not every patient needed surgery.

Symptoms: lumbar disc herniation, long-term low back pain, leg pain, leg numbness.

Traditional Chinese medicine heirloom folk prescription:

Legislation of book foot pad station: take a book with a thickness of 2 ~ 3 cm and put it on the floor, then stand on it with two front feet and keep it on the floor for a period of time.

In recent years, more and more young people seek medical treatment because of lumbar problems, especially white-collar workers who have been sitting in offices for a long time. Sedentary is easy to cause lumbar muscle strain, plus irregular diet. If you are a young woman, you usually like to wear high heels and carry a big bag, and the burden on your lumbar spine is heavier.

An example of Dr. Chai's house call

Is lumbar disc herniation a patent for the elderly?

Last week, I treated a patient with lumbar disc herniation. The patient is only in his twenties, and he came to see a doctor because of long-term low back pain, leg pain and numbness.

At first, I thought she was an ordinary lumbar muscle strain, but after examination, she found that she had lumbar scoliosis and the straight leg elevation test was positive, so I suggested that she take an X-ray, which proved that she had "lumbar disc herniation". The prominent lumbar intervertebral disc compresses the related nerves in the spinal canal, so there are symptoms such as low back and leg pain.

At that time, she couldn't believe it. She thought that lumbar disc herniation should be an old man's disease. How can it happen to young people?

How can the intervertebral disc "protrude"?

I told her that although lumbar disc herniation is very common in the elderly, if young people do not pay attention to lumbar health care for a long time, lack exercise and walk incorrectly, there will also be lumbar disc problems.

The spine consists of a vertebral body, and there is a drum-shaped "intervertebral disc" between every two vertebral bodies, with a nucleus pulposus between them and multiple layers of fibrous rings around it. How can a good intervertebral disc "protrude"? This is due to the poor blood circulation in the spine and the increase of internal pressure in the vertebral body, which leads to degenerative diseases in the nucleus pulposus and annulus fibrosus.