Symptoms of lumbar disc herniation

summary

Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is a disease characterized by low back and leg pain caused by the compression of nerve roots by the protrusion of nucleus pulposus after the rupture of annulus fibrosus. Lumbar disc herniation patients in daily life should pay attention to the combination of work and rest, correct posture, avoid long standing and sedentary, should choose a hard bed, keep the spine physiological bending.

Symptoms of lumbar disc herniation

First of all: low back pain: most of the performance for the waist persistent dull pain, involved like pain, sedentary, long standing attack, prone to reduce; another kind of sudden lumbar spasm like pain, unbearable, need to rest in bed, this disease is mostly intervertebral disc annulus fibrosus rupture.

Secondly: lower limb radiation pain: Patients with sciatica, or pain from the buttocks, when cough, sneezing and forced defecation, lower limb electric radiation pain will aggravate. In addition, leg pain is more severe than low back pain, which is also the main manifestation of lumbar disc herniation.

Finally: numbness: nerve roots are compressed by the herniated part of the intervertebral disc, lack of blood flow, ischemia and hypoxia, and there will be pain, numbness and other abnormal feelings in the legs or feet.

matters needing attention

During the acute attack period of lumbar disc herniation, we should stay in bed as much as possible, and pay attention to proper rest after remission, so as to avoid aggravating lumbar disc herniation.