Low back pain and sciatica are early warning signals of lumbar disc herniation. Lumbar disc herniation is not only a patent for middle-aged and elderly friends, but also a considerable threat to young friends. Lumbar disc herniation is divided into: bulging, protrusion and prolapse. Symptoms are varied. Including various symptoms of low back pain, patients often have lumbosacral pain, which is deep and can be light or heavy. It is produced after sitting for a long time; In severe cases, the pain is unbearable, bedridden, painful at the slightest movement, and it is extremely difficult to turn over.
Orthopedic experts at Beijing Urban Construction Youth Ditch Hospital pointed out that not every patient with lumbar disc herniation has symptoms of low back pain, and some patients only have symptoms of lower limbs, such as numbness and discomfort of calves and feet in the early stage; Or some start with pain in one lower limb accompanied by numbness, and soon the symptoms on the other side appear, and one side is lighter or the original symptoms disappear. High lumbar disc herniation mostly shows the symptoms of femoral neuralgia in the front of thigh, while low lumbar disc herniation mostly shows the symptoms of sciatica in the back of thigh. Other patients also have symptoms of low back and leg pain; Other symptoms of low back pain are relieved or disappeared after the symptoms of lower limbs appear.
The symptoms of lower limbs caused by lumbar disc herniation are often related to walking and standing. Some patients show persistent pain and numbness. Symptoms seriously affect walking activities and severe lower limb paralysis. Experts remind that lumbar disc herniation should be treated as soon as possible. The early treatment of disc herniation is not only to reduce the pain of symptomatic patients, but also to prevent the secondary changes of disc herniation from producing more and more serious symptoms. Disc herniation can cause secondary changes: