This is how lumbar stenosis should be treated

Lumbar stenosis is a very common medical disease, which usually includes three types: central stenosis, lateral stenosis, and nerve root canal stenosis. It is a serious disease that affects people's normal life and work, so it is particularly important to find a scientific and effective treatment method. If you want to treat lumbar stenosis, you must be prepared for a protracted battle, pay attention to maintaining correct posture, combine rest and exercise, keep warm in cold weather, and maintain regular health checks. These five points have significant effects in treating lumbar stenosis, but require long-term persistence from the patient.

1. What is lumbar spinal stenosis?

Lumbar spinal stenosis is one of the causes of lumbar spondylosis that leads to low back pain and lumbar and leg pain. It can be divided into three categories according to the location, namely central stenosis, lateral stenosis and nerve root canal stenosis. It can be divided into congenital and developmental and background secondary according to the cause. The main manifestations of this disease are: there are often no symptoms when resting quietly, but symptoms such as lower limb pain, numbness, and weakness will appear after walking a certain distance, and the symptoms can only be relieved after squatting or sitting down to rest. As the disease worsens, the shorter the walking distance, the longer the rest time required.

2. To treat lumbar spinal stenosis, you must do the following 5 points

1. Be prepared for a protracted war

Whether it is lumbar spinal stenosis or lumbar disc herniation, long-term treatment and psychological counseling are needed to cure it. So please don't give up halfway and never expect to see significant improvement in a few weeks. Who can you blame for this stubborn disease? You should blame yourself for not taking good care of your body. Everyone must remember that the body is the capital of revolution and health is something that money can't buy.

2. Pay attention to maintaining correct posture and changing bad habits

When sitting, do not cross your legs. If you need to work at a desk, do not bend over or look at the computer for too long, and do not bend over too much to pick up things. (As I write this, I have unconsciously sat in that posture.) When you feel tired, stand up and move around in place, and do some stretching exercises intermittently, especially in the lower back, to relieve fatigue in the lower back muscles.

3. Pay attention to the combination of rest and exercise

Patients with serious conditions should pay attention to bed rest to avoid excessive stress on the lumbar spine and use other methods to exercise the waist muscle strength. There are many methods, which have been introduced in previous articles. Here, we must pay attention to avoiding compression of the intervertebral disc and breaking through the protection of the normal ligaments of the human body. Strengthening exercise can prevent lumbar diseases and delay the pain of lumbar spondylosis.

4. Key Points: Keep warm in cold weather

This year is a cold winter, so as usual, when the weather is cold, remember to wear a waist protector or put on a hot pack to prevent wind, cold and dampness from entering the body, and avoid fatigue that may cause the disease to relapse!

5. Maintain regular health checks

Regardless of whether you are sick or not, you should have regular health checks and pay attention to check whether your spine is deformed. If deformity is found, take early prevention measures to nip the disease in the bud! Therefore, we should pay attention to our sitting posture and be careful not to over-exercise in our daily life. If you are a manual laborer, you need to have regular physical examinations and cooperate with treatment.