Remember these symptoms of lumbar spondylosis

Lumbar spondylosis is now a common disease among office workers. It is mostly caused by sitting for a long time or bad sitting posture. However, this disease is also common in middle-aged and elderly people with calcium deficiency. Lumbar spondylosis is mostly caused by lumbar disc protrusion compressing the nerves, which causes extremely strong tingling pain. The quality of life of most patients is very poor, and severe cases may even lead to paralysis.

1. Lumbar pain

Most patients with lumbar disc herniation have lumbar pain. Lumbar pain usually occurs before leg pain, and clinically it is often manifested as "lower back pain first, then leg pain". Although lumbar disc herniation is mainly characterized by lower limb pain, lumbar pain is common in clinical practice. The main cause of lumbar pain is soft tissue damage inside and outside the spinal canal. The chemical stimulation of aseptic inflammation acts on the intervertebral outer annulus fibrosus and the posterior longitudinal ligament distributed in the sinovertebral nerve fibers, causing lumbar pain.

2. Sciatica

Sciatica is the main symptom of lumbar disc herniation, and clinically manifests as pain in the area along the course of the sciatic nerve in the lower limbs and its supply. The cause of sciatica is chronic soft tissue damage around the nerve roots or nerve trunks, and adhesions with them, which causes tingling, stringy pain, or radiating pain in the lower limbs due to stimulation from aseptic inflammation.

3. Lumbar disc herniation

Intermittent claudication is characterized by lower limb pain and heaviness that increases with walking distance. The symptoms can be temporarily relieved by squatting, flexing the spine and resting. People with intermittent claudication mostly suffer from soft tissue damage within the spinal canal due to damage to the fat tissue outside the dural sac or in the nerve roots. Inflammatory stimulation causes congestion, edema, ischemia and hypoxia of the nerves.

4. Numbness of lumbar disc herniation

In addition to pain in the sciatica-controlled area, patients often also experience numbness in the lower limbs. The main cause of lower limb numbness is soft tissue injury in the waist and buttocks, resulting in muscle spasm or tension, and stimulation of nerve roots or nerve trunks. In clinical practice, by treating the damaged soft tissue, muscle spasm and tension are relieved, and the numbness symptoms can disappear. Therefore, numbness of the lower limbs is mainly caused by soft tissue damage in the waist and buttocks.