Matters needing attention in daily rehabilitation of lumbar disc herniation
Diet arrangement
Patients with lumbar disc herniation should reduce their activities due to illness, reduce their dietary intake, slow gastrointestinal peristalsis and reduce their digestive function. Therefore, they should arrange their diet reasonably, pay attention to eating less and more meals, eat more vegetables, fruits and beans, and eat more foods with high calcium content, such as milk, dairy products, dried shrimps, kelp, sesame sauce and bean products. It is good for supplementing calcium, but the lumbar vertebrae have grown out (hyperosteogeny). Try to eat less meat and foods with high fat content, because it is easy to cause dry stools and difficulty in defecation, which leads to aggravation of the disease.
Living arrangements
The correct standing posture should be eyes looking straight, chest upright, legs upright, and the distance between feet is about the same as the width of pelvis, so that the whole body's gravity is evenly transferred from the spine and pelvis to the lower limbs, and then from the lower limbs to the feet, so as to become a real "down-to-earth" and effectively prevent the nucleus pulposus from protruding again. Standing time should not be too long, and proper in-situ activities should be carried out to relieve back muscle fatigue. The correct sitting posture should be that the upper body is straight, the abdomen is closed and the legs and knees are close together. If possible, you can put a foot or pedal under your feet so that your knees are slightly higher than your hips. After sitting for a long time, you should also exercise and relax your lower limb muscles. Work and rest should be combined at ordinary times, pay attention to the correct posture and avoid bending down to lift heavy objects.
Wear waist protection properly to keep warm and cold.
For patients with lumbar disc herniation, the main purpose of wearing waist protector is to brake, that is, to limit the flexion and other movements of the lumbar spine, especially to assist the back muscles to limit some unnecessary flexion movements, so as to ensure that the injured lumbar disc can get sufficient local rest. In addition, cold and dampness in the waist can easily aggravate or recur symptoms. Patients can choose a high-performance rehabilitation waist protector that is both braking and warm, breathable and does not accumulate sweat to protect their waist.
Pay attention to bedding and lying position.
Too soft bed will form a shape with low middle and high sides under the weight of human body, which will easily affect the physiological curve of lumbar spine and make the intervertebral disc stress uneven. Therefore, from the perspective of treatment and prevention of lumbar disc herniation, it is more appropriate to choose wooden boards, and bedding should be soft and suitable in general, so as to maintain the balance of lumbar vertebrae to a great extent. People's sleeping positions can be roughly divided into supine, lateral and prone. When lying on your back, as long as the bedding is suitable, the limbs remain naturally stretched and the curvature of the spine changes little. Generally speaking, you don't have to care too much about the left or right position, because people always turn over in order to get a more comfortable position during sleep. In prone position, the chest is compressed and the lumbar lordosis increases, which is most likely to cause discomfort. Therefore, it is generally appropriate to take supine position and lateral position.
Pay attention to proper rehabilitation gymnastics.
Patients with lumbar disc herniation should rest in the acute stage and should not exercise. After the condition is stable, it can be accompanied by moderate exercise such as gymnastics. On the basis of adhering to the principle of proper method, correct posture and gradual progress, we will persistently carry out appropriate waist rehabilitation gymnastics. Typical gymnastics include walking backwards, flying swallow, supine bridge, turning left and right waist, etc. There are also some introductions on the Internet. You can find gymnastics by yourself.
The risks of drugs and surgery
Drug treatment of lumbar disc herniation is generally only aimed at relieving symptoms. At present, most drugs are anti-inflammatory and detumescence hormones with great side effects. In addition, the side effects of traditional Chinese medicine are relatively small, but few are effective. According to statistics, only 10% patients need surgery. Generally speaking, surgery is divided into minimally invasive surgery and pioneering surgery. Even the recently popular minimally invasive surgery, the postoperative effect is difficult to return to the level before the onset, and some patients will still relapse. The spine is densely covered with important nerve tissue, and intervertebral disc surgery itself is risky. At the same time, there are various surgical complications and sequelae, and even medical accidents that lead to paralysis due to surgical failure are often heard. Patients with lumbar disc herniation should choose correctly according to their own conditions during illness and rehabilitation, and try to adopt conservative health therapy with high safety factor.
Patients with lumbar disc herniation are tortured by the double contradiction between disease and medicine in the daily rehabilitation process, and they all expect to find a more natural and thorough cure. In developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan, drugs and injections with side effects are gradually abandoned by people, and people are more inclined to the daily rehabilitation of diseases and seek the medical concept of combining human self-healing power with natural therapy. Alternative medicine-"alternative medicine" came into being, and more and more alternative medical institutions were established one after another, forming a new medical trend in the world.
With the continuous updating and humanization of medical concepts, the daily rehabilitation nursing of lumbar disc herniation will become more and more popular, and advanced concepts such as alternative medicine will be more and more recognized by people.