Acupuncture treatment of sciatica

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Most into a star, at the beginning of the left foot no strength sour, now the right foot pain, buttock bone has been painful, listen to friends say is sciatic nerve, go to the hospital examination is sciatica, acupuncture treatment for a period of time, the body is good, you want to know acupuncture treatment sciatica? Let me talk about acupuncture for sciatica.

Acupuncture treatment of sciatica

Treatment 1: bed rest treatment of sciatica: Patients with sciatica should rest more, especially in the early stage of intervertebral disc herniation, they should rest in hard bed for 3-4 weeks, and some patients' symptoms can relieve themselves. This is the clinical treatment of sciatica.

Treatment 2: drug treatment of sciatica: Western medicine: analgesics, vitamin B family, short-term oral corticosteroids can relieve the symptoms of sciatica to a certain extent, but can not achieve the goal of radical cure. For some patients with severe sciatica, this method can be used to relieve, oral administration of such drugs should not be too much, otherwise it will bring too much impact on their liver and kidney. Traditional Chinese medicine: the treatment of external medicine, at present this treatment method is also a better clinical treatment of sciatica.

Treatment 3: blocking and physiotherapy for sciatica: this method can be used in the acute stage, but "blocking needle" is to directly inject drugs into the spinal canal or around the nerve root, local anesthesia to achieve analgesic effect. The symptoms recovered immediately after the blocking effect.

matters needing attention

For this disease: sciatica is generally divided into primary and secondary two. Primary sciatica is mainly rheumatic sciatica caused by rheumatism, while secondary sciatica is more common in lumbar disc herniation. In addition, there are spinal cord tumors, myelitis, internal organs and other diseases.