Is it useful to wear waist protection when intervertebral disc herniation compresses sciatic nerve? Waist protection can support the waist, relieve waist pain, relieve waist muscle tension, and also play a role in keeping warm and cold and promoting blood circulation. Lumbar disc herniation will not cause obvious clinical symptoms in most cases. Mainly refers to the fibrous ring after the nucleus pulposus tissue in the intervertebral disc breaks through, and the position and degree of disc herniation can be clearly seen on CT or MRI of lumbar intervertebral disc. Because there is no clinical discomfort, there is no need to use a belt. On the contrary, if it is used for too long, it may lead to atrophy of waist muscles.
If the disc herniation causes the clinical symptoms of low back and leg pain, you need to pay attention to rest and sleep on a hard bed. If you have to walk standing, you can use the belt, but you should take it off when you are in bed, otherwise it may lead to the decline of muscle strength and muscle atrophy in the waist. Proper use of the belt can reduce the degree of disc herniation and the degree of nerve root compression. At the same time, it is necessary to keep warm and avoid catching cold and sedentary. Conservative treatment is ineffective and surgery is often needed. Lumbar disc herniation is useful to wear a belt. First of all, the increase of abdominal pressure is an important factor to induce the aggravation of lumbar disc herniation. The belt has a protective effect, which can reduce the backward impact of abdominal pressure on the intervertebral disc and avoid the increase of abdominal pressure caused by strenuous exercise such as coughing, bending, running and jumping. When the symptoms get worse, you can use a belt to protect yourself when you walk and bend over, preferably the one with a steel plate at the back. However, the long-term use of the belt will lead to the waste of soft tissue muscles in the waist, which is ultimately not conducive to the rehabilitation of lumbar disc herniation.
What are the symptoms of lumbar disc herniation? According to pathological changes, there are two symptoms. One is that if the dural sac and nerve roots are mainly compressed, the symptoms are mainly low back pain and leg pain, and the radiation pain is mainly between the waist and legs. According to which nerve root is compressed, there are sensory disorders and motor disorders in the corresponding areas of lower limbs. On the other hand, if the nucleus pulposus does not compress the dural sac and nerve roots, the main pathology is only intervertebral disc degeneration and discogenic hypertension, which will only show the symptoms of low back pain, especially when bending over.
The lumbar intervertebral disc protrudes to the back end, and the protective layer at the back end of the lumbar intervertebral disc is weak. When the protruding part compresses the nerve, there will be symptoms such as pain and numbness in the lower limbs. Even incontinence may occur, and in severe cases, incomplete paralysis may occur. Therefore, we should pay attention to exercise in our daily life and give more traction to the waist, but we should exercise properly. Patients should avoid catching cold in diet, avoid eating cold food, pay attention to keeping the waist warm, and it is not easy to keep the same posture for too long. The main symptoms of lumbar disc herniation are pain and numbness. Lumbar disc herniation can stimulate the nerve of vertebral sinus, thus causing the symptoms of discogenic low back pain. Prolapse of lumbar intervertebral disc stimulates nerve roots, leading to nerve root edema, which can cause radiation pain symptoms of unilateral lower limbs.