What are the side effects of lumbar traction

Traction therapy is a common method for treating lumbar diseases. It has a good therapeutic effect on lumbar disc herniation and is a better conservative method. As long as the treatment is proper, there will generally be no complications. Of course, this treatment method is not suitable for every patient. It must be treated under the doctor's advice, especially during home treatment, and attention must be paid.

There are a lot of things to pay attention to when pulling your dog at home .

1. Since traction at home generally uses continuous pelvic traction, it requires complete equipment, including pelvic traction belt, traction rope, pulley bracket and heavy objects, or you can directly buy traction clothing or a "portable traction bed".

2. Do not be "self-righteous". The traction posture, weight, time, etc. should be guided by a doctor and follow the doctor's advice.

3. You need to prepare a hard bed board at home to maintain the tension. If you lie on a soft bed, the traction effect will be lost, which may sometimes aggravate the symptoms, so you should pay attention. The leash must fit properly. The tension of the pelvic traction belt must act on the iliac wing and must protect the bony prominence to prevent bedsores.

4. After a period of traction, the symptoms should be alleviated. At this time, traction should not be terminated prematurely, but you should continue to stay in bed and combine traction to reduce the chance of recurrence.

5. If the symptoms do not improve after traction for a period of time, you should promptly consult a professional doctor to find out the cause and take appropriate measures.

6. If the symptoms worsen after a period of traction, stop traction immediately and seek further examination and treatment from a professional doctor.

7. Patients who are not suitable for traction treatment should not perform traction on their own at home.

Correct traction method

Generally, the supine position with hip and knee flexion is adopted to minimize the stress on the spine. The traction force usually starts with half of the patient's body weight and is gradually increased according to the situation, up to a maximum of the patient's body weight. Intermittent traction is the main method, with each traction lasting 20-30 minutes, 1-2 times a day, and a course of treatment of 15-20 days.

According to the size of traction and the duration of action, traction can be divided into rapid traction and slow traction. Rapid traction has a large weight and a short action time, and is often combined with traditional Chinese medicine's fingertips for traction. This type of traction is most typical of traditional Chinese medicine's "artificial pulling and pressing reduction" method. Later, it gradually developed into rapid horizontal traction with mechanical transmission. In recent years, researchers have combined the inclined board and rotation techniques of traditional Chinese medicine with the rapid horizontal traction of mechanical transmission to create an angled rotating rapid traction bed, which has been used in clinical practice to relieve the pain of many patients with lumbar disc herniation. Slow traction has a small weight and each traction lasts from 30 minutes to 1 hour. Multiple tractions are required and it is also a commonly used method for clinical treatment of lumbar disc herniation.