What is spinal herniation?

As the name suggests, spinal herniation means that the intervertebral disc is squeezed from all sides, causing its growth to be distorted, resulting in the disease of spinal herniation. Spinal herniation is a very common disease in life. Everyone should pay attention to their living habits and try to avoid the occurrence of this disease.

Degenerative changes in the intervertebral disc

The intervertebral disc lacks blood supply and has weak repair energy. In daily life, the intervertebral disc is squeezed, pulled and torsioned from all sides, which can easily cause the nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and cartilage plate to gradually age, making the annulus fibrosus easy to rupture and cause intervertebral disc herniation.

trauma

Because the lumbar vertebrae are arranged in a physiological lordosis, the intervertebral disc is thick in the front and thin in the back. When the patient suffers a lumbar injury, fall, or sprain, the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc moves backwards, causing the intervertebral disc to protrude backwards.

Overload

When the waist is overloaded and people have to do bending work for a long time, such as coal miners or construction workers who need to bend over for a long time to pick up heavy objects, and the load on the lumbar intervertebral disc exceeds 100 kPa/cm2, the intervertebral disc annulus fibrosus will rupture.

Lumbar puncture

As early as 1935, there were reports of narrowing of the intervertebral space and herniated disc after lumbar puncture.

Long-term vibration

When car and tractor drivers are in a sitting and bumpy state for a long time while driving, the lumbar intervertebral disc is under excessive pressure, which can lead to disc degeneration and herniation. At the same time, vibration also affects the nutrition of the intervertebral disc, and the impact on the microvessels can accelerate intervertebral disc herniation.

The article introduces some possible causes of spinal herniation, which can cause damage to the spine, especially those caused by external force or improper posture. Nowadays, many people often work overtime or play computer games, sit in front of the computer for a long time, play with their mobile phones for a long time, watch TV for a long time, etc., which can cause great pressure on the spine. If this continues for a long time, it will cause damage to the spine.