Xiao Li's waist has become the heart disease of their family!
Two years ago, Xiao Li, a 21-year-old sophomore, was injured in a basketball game at school. He was unable to move and was sent to the hospital due to low back pain. The emergency doctor did various examinations and finally diagnosed that Xiao Li was a typical "lumbar disc herniation" caused by trauma. It is precisely because of the clear diagnosis and obvious signs that Xiao Li was recommended to be hospitalized directly after the spinal surgery consultation.
However, when he heard the word "operation", Xiao Li panicked. Soon, his parents from his hometown in Fujian came to Beijing by train. After all, the 21-year-old man had to undergo surgery, which sounds terrible. As soon as Xiao Li’s father arrived at the doctor’s office, he was emotionally asked the doctor:
"Doctor, can Xiao Li not undergo surgery? Such a young child, who has had surgery on his waist, is still in his life? He loves playing basketball so much. Isn’t this killing him!?”
Although the doctor has repeatedly stated: Although the operation does have risks, the risk is still controllable, and Xiao Li’s surgical indications are very clear, and the effect of the operation will be very good and recover. Good words do not affect sports. But Xiao Li's father still didn't believe it:
"Impossible! Let alone exercise after the operation, they said that after the operation, even ordinary labor can't be done, people will be completely useless!"
However, is this really the case? It’s really like the legend that young people have had lumbar spine surgery for a lifetime, so they can’t work, let alone exercise?
Yes, I don't know if you have ever thought about it, for professional sports athletes who live on sports, if they have lumbar disc herniation and need surgery, what should they do?
Don’t think that this is not the case. In fact, professional sports athletes often start continuous high-intensity training from a very young age, and this will make them more prone to lumbar disc degeneration than ordinary people. And low back pain [1]. Professional sports athletes have a stronger training load and resistance strength far exceeding that of ordinary people, making athletes a high-risk group of "lumbar disc herniation". And for players engaged in some special sports, such as rugby, boxing, and even baseball, they are more prone to spinal (including cervical and lumbar) injuries in daily training games [2-4]. For professional sports athletes, their top competitive state and career itself are short. At such an important moment, once you get a lumbar disc herniation, it is disastrous for many athletes.
Once professional sports athletes suffer from lumbar disc herniation due to various sports injuries, the treatment principles are similar to those of the general public, but the functional requirements of such people after recovery from the disease are far beyond ordinary people. After all, whether they can return to the stadium or not is a matter of concern. livelihood. Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine that once an athlete has lumbar disc herniation, his choice of treatment will be more cautious than ordinary people, and he will have higher requirements for later functions.
Actually, what is different from what everyone thinks is that athletes not only do not reject surgery, they are more inclined to choose surgery in order to get better, especially faster recovery.
So, what happened to the professional sports athletes who underwent lumbar spine surgery? Is there any lumbar spine surgery people who are rumored in China to be abolished?
Let's take a look at the professional literature research.
In order to understand this problem, the team of doctors Rueben Nair in the United States systematically collected: from 1947 to 2013 all the professional literature on the removal of the nucleus pulposus of the lumbar keyboard protrusion of athletes.
Then, they conducted a professional statistical analysis of the data in the cumulative total of 810 professional documents.
Based on the analysis of the above data:
(1) Among the many athletes who have undergone surgery for lumbar disc herniation, the proportion of athletes who can successfully return to the sports arena after surgery to continue their career is 75%-100%;
(2) The reason why this ratio is a range rather than an exact number is because different studies have different definitions of "successful return to the game";
(3) athletes from surgery to return to the game The average overall recovery time is: 2.8 months to 8.7 months, of which the shortest recovery time is 2 months [5];
(4) These athletes who recovered from the operation and returned to the game, their average career time after surgery is : 2.6 years to 4.8 years.
3, what does this have to do with us?
(1) Surgery is risky, but the risk is not as big as everyone thinks.
Yes, everyone is afraid of surgery, not to mention the terrible risks of surgical anesthesia, just thinking about cutting the meat is scared. However, it is worth mentioning that in many cases, the risks and costs of not having surgery are greater, not only long-term pain dysfunction, but also irreversible damage caused by the gradual aggravation of the disease.
(2) Surgery has an impact on sports and labor, but the impact is not as great as everyone thought.
Yes, it does take a while to recover after the operation, but this is only temporary. As the function of muscles, ligaments and bony structures are restored, they will soon gradually return to normal life.
From the previous research, it is not difficult to see that even the top sports players can return to the competition after the operation. Let us ordinary people, let alone doing their own work, there is no problem in playing and kicking.
(3) Good postoperative requires good doctors and good patients to work together.
Yes, the effect of surgery is closely related to the level of the doctor. Therefore, if we have to consider surgery, we must go to a regular public tertiary hospital and find a regular doctor for surgery. After the operation, we have to rely more on ourselves to actively maintain functional exercises every day and work hard to cooperate with doctors in order to achieve the best therapeutic effect.
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References
1.Ong A, Anderson J, Roche J. A pilot study of the prevalence of lumbar disc degeneration in elite athletes with lower back pain at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Br J Sports Med. 2003;37:263–266.
2. Weistroffer JK, Hsu WK. Return-to-play rates in National Football League linemen after treatment for lumbar disk herniation. Am J Sports Med. 2011 ;39:632–636.
3. Watkins RG. Lumbar disc injury in the athlete. Clin Sports Med. 2002;21:147–165, viii.
4. Watkins RG, Dennis S, Dillin WH, Schnebel B, Schneiderman G, Jobe F, Farfan H, Perry J, Pink M.Dynamic EMG analysis of torque transfer in professional baseball pitchers. Spine. 1989;14:404–408.
5. Watkins RGt, Williams LA, Watkins RG 3rd. Microscopic lumbar discectomy results for 60 cases in professional and Olympic athletes. Spine J. 2003 ;3:100–105.
