What is causing my lower back pain and leg numbness?

When symptoms of lower back pain and leg numbness occur, you should pay attention to understanding the causes, because various reasons may affect the health of these parts, such as poor local blood circulation or patients with diabetes or neurovascular diseases will experience such symptoms.

1. External factors:

The blood vessels in the lower limbs are under pressure for a long time, including some people who sit for a long time (I emphasize that not all people), which causes poor blood circulation and insufficient local blood supply, causing numbness in the feet. If this is caused by this situation, you can move around and tap the feet with your hands and it will be fine. If the numbness in the feet is unexplained, go to the hospital for examination in time.

2. Frequent numbness of the feet due to unknown reasons:

It is recommended to go to the hospital's neurology department for examination to determine the cause before treatment.

There are many reasons for foot numbness, which can be caused by drugs, diabetes, neurovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and cervical and lumbar spine. Foot numbness cannot be treated symptomatically, but the cause must be treated.

3. Sequelae of cerebral hemorrhage---numbness of feet:

Other sequelae of diseases {numbness of hands and feet} In this case, the main treatment is family rehabilitation training in daily life --- training of basic living skills. If you have not done acupuncture, acupuncture treatment is recommended.

4. Another type of numbness in the feet after sitting for a long time may be related to lumbar disc herniation. A lumbar CT scan can be done for diagnosis.

5. Comments and suggestions:

Acupuncture can be used for treatment to dredge the meridians and regulate qi and blood, with good results.

What causes leg pain and foot numbness? Another possibility is that it is caused by cramps.