believes that both men and women, young and middle-aged people will have different degrees of low back pain symptoms. If low back pain occurs frequently, do you immediately think that your lumbar intervertebral disc has a problem? In particular, the disease of "waist intervertebral disc herniation " can be described as an exaggeration that everyone knows. Statistics show that the number of patients with lumbar spondylosis in my country has exceeded 200 million, of which patients aged 20-40 accounted for about 64%, and there are more men than women, and the incidence of elderly people is relatively low.
So what exactly are we talking about "lumbar disc"? Dr. Jarvan is doing good science popularization for everyone~ If you don’t understand, you can actively ask questions in the comment section below~
There are five lumbar vertebrae. There is a soft and elastic tissue between the lumbar vertebral body and the vertebral body. This is the intervertebral disc. The intervertebral disc is composed of several parts of the cartilage plate of the vertebral body, the surrounding fibrous ring, and the semi-fluid nucleus pulposus . Simply put, we can understand the intervertebral disc as a jam bread. The fiber ring is the bread on the outside, and the nucleus is the jam on the inside. Whenever a human moves or bends down, the upper and lower lumbar vertebrae will squeeze each other. At this time, there will be three situations:
1. The nucleus pulposus protrudes from the fibrous annulus to make it bulge- intervertebral disc bulge
2. The nucleus flows out of the outer fibrous annulus, forming a herniation-intervertebral disc herniation
3. The nucleus pulposus frees into the spinal canal- intervertebral disc prolapse
Generally speaking, intervertebral disc bulging is relatively common, and most people have mild or severe bulging. Appears like. But if you don’t protect it well, it will “protrude” further, or even “exit” more seriously, so that you cannot ignore its existence. Although
says that "bulging of the intervertebral disc" is the most common phenomenon, many people wait until the "protrusion" occurs before paying attention, which means that more people are concerned about "lumbar disc herniation".
How can the lumbar intervertebral disc protrude? It's not because of your bad habits~
1. Sedentary. Do office workers often sit for a whole day, and then find that their waists and legs are numb? For the lumbar spine, the waist and hips present a vertical stress state when sitting, and the stress points are mainly concentrated in the lumbar spine. Sitting for a long time will increase the weight-bearing pressure of the lumbar spine. Over time, the phenomenon of "strain" will appear, which will cause compression to Peripheral nerves, low back pain and other symptoms will cause lumbar disc herniation over time.
2. Bend down hard. When everyone bends down to change water, mopping the floor, or even bends down to move bricks, do you feel particularly tired over time? Have you ever been strained even more severely? When carrying heavy objects, if the annulus fibrosis is excessively squeezed and ruptured, the nucleus pulposus will be squeezed out, but it is easy to cause acute lumbar disc herniation .
3. Strenuous exercise. Basketball, football, extreme sports and other intense sports can easily cause acute waist sprain . The lumbar spine itself is not good, explosive force is easy to tear the originally stable lumbar intervertebral disc fibrous wound wound, aggravating the condition.
hurt the lumbar spine, so finding a way is the best policy.
How should people with lumbar disease take care of our waist?
1. Exercise the waist. There are many postures for waist exercise with , such as common plank support, push-ups, Xiaoyanfei and other postures, which can help exercise the lower back muscles and help protect the lumbar spine. In addition, you can also use community equipment for traction. You can practice hoisting a horizontal bar to stretch tense muscles, but you must pay attention to the effect for a long time. If you can't hold your feet off the ground for a long time, you can also bend your knees and touch the bottom of your feet.
2. Swimming. For most patients with lumbar protrusion, swimming is a good exercise. Water will support your weight, reduce pressure on your spine, and exercise your lower back muscles.
3. Choose the mattress that suits you. Many patients with think that a poor waist means they have to sleep on a hard bed. However, if the mattress is too hard, it will not fit the normal physiological curve of the human spine well, and it can only be achieved by contacting a few stress points of the human torso.Support the spine, the waist is not supported, but it is easy to sleep sore back and leg cramps. So we have to choose one, whether we sleep on our back, sleep on our side, or even sleep on our stomach, it can provide good support for the spine, can shape itself, and fit all parts of the body very comfortably. Bed. What suits you is the best~
4. Change bad habits. For example: People who need to sit for a long time should stand up and move at regular intervals. When sitting down, keep your waist straight and don’t lift your legs. When lifting heavy objects, squat down first, then get up. The movements should be slow, but the posture Be "handsome" to reduce the stress on the lumbar spine; do warm-up exercises first when doing strenuous exercises, and always pay attention to the spine during exercise.
Lumbar disc treatment
For lumbar spondylosis, most of the clinical use is conservative treatment . Conservative treatment includes bed rest for about 3 weeks, anti-inflammatory analgesia with drugs, hot compress, fascia gun and other physical therapies. If some patients have severe symptoms, surgery will be considered.
Finally, Dr. Jarvan reminds everyone that those with severe lumbar intervertebral disc pain that has seriously affected their work and life must go to a regular hospital for correct treatment. Most of the remaining patients can be cured by conservative treatment or have long-term relief of symptoms. Lumbar spondylosis is generally difficult to cure and can only be controlled without recurrence. Therefore, the best way is to "strengthen exercises, get rid of bad habits, and protect your waist every day, be a waist guard and anti-burst messenger!"
