Why is cauda equina nerve damage not simple, but it has a great impact on life?

Cauda equina nerve injury is not a terminal disease, but long-term pain will lead to changes in the patient's mentality.

Because it affects the patient's ability to take care of himself, it will also become a part of the burden on the family's economy.

The initial stage of cauda equina nerve injury is only a slight numbness, when the patient has pain, he should immediately seek medical diagnosis**, can not be delayed again and again, and the heart does not take it seriously, and wait until the condition worsens to the point that there are problems with the function of the second stool, such as incontinence, urinary retention, inability to self-discharge, muscle atrophy, decline or loss of various functions. I felt that my condition was serious, and I panicked, and the symptoms were relatively serious at this time.

Therefore, it should be paid attention to at the early stage of the disease. The diagnosis is generally based on the accompanying symptoms of low back pain combined with physical examination, CT, X-ray, magnetic resonance, blood routine, urine routine and other related examinations.

If the optimal time period is delayed, and the symptoms caused by cauda equina injury are significantly aggravated, we should know which examination reports to refer to: lumbar x-ray plain radiograph, SEP (somatosensory evoked potential), myelography, CT and MRI for diagnosis. If you have been diagnosed with cauda equina syndrome, you must seek medical attention as soon as possible, delay the time, or not, and allow the development of the physical condition to cause serious and permanent damage.

Cauda equina nerve injury is not only a symptom of movement disorder, but also includes some complications affected by the mental level, which are the key problems that cause the condition to be difficult to recover, and traditional Chinese medicine is not only expected to cure motor symptoms and recover most of the disease problems, but also has great significance for the mental symptoms of patients with cauda equina nerve injury.

Although cauda equina nerve injury is not fatal, the process is slow, and there is no so-called "miracle drug". We mostly take a one-month course of treatment and a three-month cycle to see the results.

In the process of taking the medicine, you must carefully follow the doctor's instructions, and remember not to adjust the dosage privately in order to pursue quick results, which may cause more physical discomfort and induce other complications. Be sure to take Chinese medicine carefully according to the prescription and dosage prescribed by the doctor.

In clinical practice, such as burst fractures, lumbar degeneration, cholesteatoma around cauda equina, schwannoma, myelomeningoma, lipoma, or severe lumbar disc herniation, spinal canal cyst, surgical accident, car accident, fall and so on will cause damage to the cauda equina nerve.

The harm after cauda equina nerve injury is still quite large, and in severe cases, it will cause the patient to gradually become unable to take care of himself and need the help of his family to live a normal life.

It is very large, and seriously affects the patient's self-care.

1.Lumbar spinal stenosis caused by congenital dysplasia or acquired lumbar spine degeneration: such patients generally suffer cauda equina nerve damage due to congenital or acquired physical factors such as spinal stenosis, lumbar vertebral plate or ligamentum flavum hypertrophy causing nerve compression.

2.Lumbar spinal fracture caused by accident: This type of cause is usually due to an accident such as a fall from a height, a firearm, a knife wound, a car accident, etc., resulting in a lumbar vertebral fracture or a burst fracture that causes direct damage to the cauda equina nerve; Older patients or osteoporosis may experience symptoms from a sprain or fall.

Since this process is carried out in the body, it is easy to cause bleeding, scarring, and even deeper injuries to the spinal cord or spinal nerves, resulting in more severe damage to the cauda equina nerve.

3.Cysts and tumors in the lumbar spinal canal: Some patients have tumors and cysts in the spinal canal, which grow near the cauda equina nerve, causing cauda equina nerve compression, and then cauda equina nerve damage and complications.

4.Cauda equina nerve damage caused by surgery: At present, in the medical community, surgeries are performed by doctors, and our human bodies are different, so there are many uncertainties, especially for lumbar spine surgery, many patients may cause nerve damage due to unavoidable reasons, resulting in cauda equina syndrome, resulting in irreversible damage.

In life, there are many reasons that can cause cauda equina nerve damage, such as: soft tissue compression, bleeding, spinal canal anesthesia, chemical substances, etc. We should definitely pay attention to it in life, especially for patients with a herniated lumbar disc.

Nerve damage can be manifested as numbness, pain, hypoesthesia, limited activity, etc., such as the above conditions It is recommended to go to the hospital in time, MRI, electromyography and other examinations can be performed to understand whether there is spinal cord and nerve damage, if there is nerve damage, surgery is required**, and the use of blood circulation and stasis drugs, nutrition and nerve drugs**.

Let's see what others have to say.

There are many accidents that cause a lot, such as lumbar protrusion.

The geography of the hometown of fitness works.

Driver's office.

It is easy for the lumbar protrusion, some may compress the nerves, spinal stenosis, pregnancy, and some are accidents.

Car accident or whatever.

Because many people do not understand the nerves of the lumbar spine, and there are many lumbar protrusions now, there are many antecedents that lead to cauda equina syndrome under various factors, so more and more patients with cauda equina nerve injury appear.

Congenital lumbar spinal stenosis, tumor compression, lumbar disc herniation, surgery and many other reasons can lead to cauda equina nerve damage.

According to the survey, there are more than 200 million patients with lumbar spondylosis in China, and the potential patients with cauda equina nerve injury account for 2% of them, and the age group of the injured people is about 30-40 years old, and the annual data has a rising trend.

At first, the symptoms of cauda equina nerve injury were not taken seriously, mainly because the early symptoms may only be manifested as a simple numbness, and will not endanger human life, but in recent years, with the trend of the Internet, most people work in the state of work all day long in the face of electronic products, so everyone also understands the potential possibility of cauda equina nerve injury.

According to the passage of time, many patients who do not take it seriously will be followed by weakness in the lower limbs, gradually increasing pain, and incontinence of large and small urinary tracts, so people have to pay attention to the problems brought by this disease.

Hazard 1: For patients with early cauda equina nerve injury, the symptoms are generally not obvious, and they are often not taken seriously. Cauda equina syndrome is not terrible, the worry is that the patient because of the illness caused by some psychological gap, life and work will be more or less affected, serious patients may not be able to take care of themselves, long-term bedridden, unable to walk, around at any time to take care of daily life, the quality of life is greatly reduced, not only their own suffering, to bring a burden to the family, but also many patients **not timely, **can not see hope, **cost for some ordinary families is a lot of money, It is also financially burdensome.

Hazard 2: Leads to mental complications. For long-term ** results are not ideal, psychological acceptance is poor, and the gap between life and work caused by physical diseases cannot be accepted, some mental diseases will appear.

For example: anxiety, depression, neurasthenia, low self-esteem, etc., and even some patients have the psychology of resistance due to long-term treatment, and the symptoms themselves belong to the serious category, and then resist **, breaking the can and falling leads to a more serious condition, the body is more difficult to recover, brings troubles to the family, and increases the pain and suffering to themselves.

Patients will also enter the dead cycle of self-limitation, thinking that when the pain can not be understood by relatives, the temper will become extremely weird, sometimes this negative emotions accumulate to a certain limit, because they cannot be vented and understood, there will be love anger, mania, temper short, etc.

Hazard 3: According to incomplete statistics, patients with cauda equina nerve injury are increasing year by year, lumbar disc herniation patients in cauda equina nerve injury patients, it seems that the probability of cauda equina nerve injury is very small, but with the development of society, the rise of employment pressure, more and more lumbar disc herniation patients, and gradually younger, of course, patients with cauda equina nerve damage are also accumulating, plus many patients do not know the disease at the beginning, it is easier to delay the best time, resulting in aggravation.

The cauda equina nerve is damaged and manifests itself differently depending on the severity of the injury. It is manifested as motor and sensory dysfunction in the innervated area of the damaged nerve roots, and in severe cases, paralysis of the muscles below the knee joint, as well as movement disorders of the knee, ankle and foot joints, and incontinence. However, if the nerve damage is treated aggressively at an early stage, recovery is possible.

Once irreversible nerve damage occurs, it is very difficult to get started, and the effect is not very good.

Complete injury.

In complete injury, motor impairment is characterized by involvement of the knee joint and its lower muscles, dysfunction of the knee, ankle, and foot, and marked instability of gait. Due to the loss of the ability to stretch and bend the feet, the hip joint must be lifted when walking, which is manifested by a "wading gait" and urinary incontinence;

Sensory impairment refers to loss of deep and superficial sensation below the level of injury, manifested by decreased or absent sensation in the posterior thigh, posterior calf, foot, and saddle region;

Incomplete injury.

Incomplete cauda equina nerve injury is manifested only by muscle motor and sensory dysfunction in the innervated area of the injured nerve root, while the rest of the undamaged cauda equina nerve can still perform its sensory and motor functions normally. The cauda equina nerve damage symptoms of lumbar disc herniation are a sign of an exacerbation.

It should also be emphasized that whether the nerve damage can be repaired on its own depends on the extent of the patient's injury.

There is no special ** method for this condition and it can be carried out by acupuncture, physiotherapy, massage, Chinese medicine, drugs to nourish the nerves**.