Does anyone know the symptoms of a herniated disc in the lumbar spine

Before talking about this question, let's first understand what an intervertebral disc is. The intervertebral disc is located between the two vertebrae of the human spine, and it is a sealed body composed of cartilage plates, fibrous annulus, and nucleus pulposus. The fiber bundles of the fiber ring can withstand large bending and torsional coherence.

The nucleus pulposus tends to herniate backwards and compress nerve roots or spinal cords, causing lumbar disc herniation.

Due to the way people work in modern society, living in the office for a long time, sitting in front of the computer, and fixed posture have led to occupational diseases, and even many students have symptoms of herniated discs. This is one of the more common diseases, mainly due to different degrees of degenerative changes in various parts of the intervertebral disc, then lumbar intervertebral disc herniation will mainly cause the following symptoms.

The first is low back pain, which is a symptom of most patients, and will show different degrees of low back pain at the onset of the disease, severe patients are even bedridden and cannot turn over, and patients with mild symptoms can be relieved after rest.

Second, the lumbar spine is limited in movement, because the lumbar movement can cause reflex muscle spasms, so the patient will be limited when he or she stretches back or curves laterally.

The third is radiating pain, if the nerve is compressed, the pain will radiate to the lower limbs, causing numbness in the legs and feet, inconvenient movement, and a feeling of stepping on cotton.

For patients with intervertebral discs, this sensation is very painful, and the pain will change with the change of external environment, especially when the cold or overexertion is obvious. In addition, the symptoms will be reversed, after a period of traditional Chinese medicine and other methods, can effectively alleviate the patient's symptoms, but can not be fundamentally, the patient needs to strengthen exercise, enhance physical fitness, can effectively prevent it.

Lumbar disc patients feel very painful, they can't sit or stand, they will feel low back pain if they stand for a long time, and they will also feel low back pain if they sit for a long time.

Patients with lumbar disc herniation may have the following symptoms:

1. Pain in the lower back. This pain is persistent and may be exacerbated by triggers, such as cold weather or a cold in the lower back, or the low back pain will gradually worsen after exertion, in addition to coughs, colds, and high blood pressure.

2. Muscle spasms in the lower back. Due to lumbar disc herniation, patients often have an involuntary self-protection posture, that is, there is a posture of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, so the lumbar muscles on one side of the patient will spasm, and there is an abnormality in the walking gait.

3. Pain, numbness, weakness of the lower limbs, or some other sensory abnormalities.

: The symptoms of lumbar disc herniation are pain and numbness, and in severe cases, muscle atrophy will occur, and the protruding part will be pressed to the right nerve, and the right lower limb will have pain and numbness, and even muscle atrophy will cause difficulty in moving, if the disc herniation is a central protrusion, then it may cause pain and numbness in both lower limbs at the same time, the disc herniation is relatively light, the pain will be relatively light, if the protrusion is more severe, then the pain symptoms of the lower limbs will be more obvious.

Due to the compression of the herniated intervertebral disc on the nerves and blood vessels, there will be lumbar sleepiness, suffocation, pain, radiating pain along the posterior lateral side of the lower limbs along the sciatic nerve, convulsions, numbness, suffocation of the lower limbs, inability to bend over, difficulty in standing up or sitting down, turning over, and inability to walk for a long time. Not everyone has these symptoms, and it varies from person to person.

When it is mild, do not bear weight, should not sit for a long time, often stand and walk, commonly known as: wealth disease; Moderate, only traction; In severe cases, surgery**.

I don't have lumbar disc herniation, this disease is a very difficult disease to treat, causing great trouble in daily life, I need to protect my body to avoid this kind of disease.

I have. My lumbar disc herniation is mild, so I am usually careful not to sit hunched over.