What are the symptoms of lumbar disc herniation

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Lumbar disc herniation is a kind of disease that many women will appear. The early onset of lumbar disc herniation follows the principle of early detection and early treatment. There are many reasons for this disease. Generally, it is difficult to get good treatment by taking medicine. Taking medicine can only alleviate the disease, which can reduce the pain and treatment cost of patients to the greatest extent. The diagnosis of lumbar disc herniation needs to go to a professional hospital for professional examination, but it is best for patients to make their own diagnosis in the early stage of illness. How to judge whether they have lumbar disc herniation? Experts share:

What are the symptoms of lumbar disc herniation

First: physical examination can find that there is tenderness about 1.5 cm near the midline of the lower back, sometimes radiating to the lower limbs. In the rear of the lower limbs, there are often tenderness points on the route of sciatic nerve. If a normal person lies on a flat bed, his lower limbs can be raised to an angle of 90 ° or close to 90 ° with the plane of the examination table without any pain, it is called negative straight leg raising test. In most patients with lumbar disc herniation, lower limb elevation is limited due to the pain of waist and buttock, which is called positive straight leg elevation test.

Second: the most prominent manifestation of lumbar disc herniation is lumbocrural pain, in which leg pain is more severe than lumbocrural pain, mostly sciatica or hip first, and gradually radiates to the posterolateral thigh, lateral leg, dorsum of foot, lateral plantar and toe.

Third: central type of protrusion often causes bilateral sciatica. When the intra-abdominal pressure increases, such as cough, sneezing and defecation, the radiating pain of lower limbs becomes more severe, and even intermittent claudication occurs. After walking for three or five minutes, people feel unbearable pain, and they have to bend their body to relieve the pain slightly. In serious cases, it will lead to the decline of sexual function, even paralysis, greatly affecting the quality of life.

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The above experts introduced the early stage of the disease, the patient how to judge whether suffering from lumbar disc herniation. The final diagnosis of lumbar disc herniation and the location and degree of herniation should be further examined by CT, MRI or lumbar myelography.