Prevention and treatment of spine spine

If spikes do not cause pain, do not need treatment. Need to lose weight to reduce weight on joints. When acute pain can be hot or cold in the pain area.

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Dr. Vu Viet Chinh, Ho Chi Minh City Orthopedic Trauma Hospital, said spine disease is a spinal degenerative disease, including unwanted development of degenerated bone or cartilage, including narrowed disc, sclerotherapy and forming bone spines.

According to Dr. Chinh, spine is common in men and increases with age. Most people over the age of 60 often have these spines without knowing it and just happened to find it when taking X-rays of their body. Spine spine can be found in any position of the spine but is usually the lumbar region and the neck vertebra.

Some common manifestations of spinal spine disease

Most spinal spines do not appear obvious symptoms. However, in the process of movement when thorns rub against other bones or software around, the patient feels pain and sometimes very uncomfortable.

- Pain often occurs in the neck, waist, especially when the patient stands or walks. The pain position corresponds to the related spinal part.

- Unusual feeling or loss of sensation in the related spinal part.

- In severe cases, numbness in the neck spreads through the hands, pain in the back, pain along the legs.

- Pain increases when walking or moving a lot. Increased pain when moving, reduced during rest, thus leading to limiting movement in these parts.

- When the nerve is pinched, the patient feels pain in the arms and legs, weak muscles. If the canal is narrowed, the patient will have a bowel disorder, loss of sensation.

- Body imbalance.

Patients with spinal pain often experience numbness in the neck spreading through the hands, pain in the back, pain along the legs.(Artwork: prevention)

How to treat spinal spine disease

If spikes do not cause pain, do not need treatment. Losing weight to reduce weight on joints is a must. When spinal spine and clinical symptoms are often treated conservatively as follows:

- Guide the correct posture to fit the biomechanics of the spine.

- Common analgesics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxants, antidepressants, anti-tremor drugs.

- Implementing methods to practice active physical therapy, swimming.

- Use some tools to support such as neck braces, lumbar braces . to reduce the burden on the diseased vertebrae.

- Should be combined with acupuncture, massage, gentle mobile spinal methods.

- On-site modes by infrared, shortwave, pulse, warm, cold, .

- Recovering the surrounding environment does not make the spine bear much load. Improving the working environment such as tables and chairs, suitable for working .

- Improve a healthy lifestyle such as stopping smoking, losing weight, nutrition .

Treatment of acute pain includes rest when inflammation, ice packs, paracetamol, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

In case of severe pain, your doctor may inject topical steroids to reduce inflammation and pain of nerves and muscles. The drug has many unwanted effects if used incorrectly and without a doctor's prescription. Long-term use of steroids can lead to bone, high blood pressure, water retention in the body. Currently in Vietnam, there are many pain relievers, although they are called oriental medicine, but there are more steroids. The anti-inflammatory effect will be faster, but the harmful side effects are also numerous.

Acupuncture can relieve some pain in the software but does not work on inflammation as well as when the spikes are pressed on the root of the cerebrospinal nerve.

Surgery is only set in case of insertion into the marrow, narrowing the medullary tube or pinching the nervous system causing signs of numbness of the legs, hands, and urinary incontinence disorder spreading to the limbs and adversely affecting the birth. daily activities. However, even when bone spine surgery is still able to grow back in the same position because of the fact that bone spine formation is a natural response to the inflammatory response. If spinal pain is present, treatment should be performed according to the spinal specialist's regimen for each type of disease and a routine follow-up visit to detect early progression of the disease so that appropriate management measures can be taken.

Prevention of spine disease

Relieve pain and reduce spinal injury lesions. Improve health, flexibility, balance, control the spinal movement and the flexibility of the cardiovascular system.

Full nutrition (calcium, vitamin D), limiting the most fat is animal fat, and increasing the consumption of green vegetables and fruits. No smoking.

Avoid spinal injuries and traumatic postures, for example, sitting in a car with a head restraint.

Always keep your spine in good posture, work, your back with support, adjust the screen or books at eye level, alternating positions. Avoid standing, sitting for too long in bad postures such as sitting for hours on your desk, watching television or reading bad postures, computer screens are too high or too low, sleeping uncomfortably.

Limit work to heavy porters.

Control your weight, don't get too fat or obese.

When acute pain can be hot or cold in the pain area. Usually use cold pressure for the first 48-72 hours then use hot (hot bath, hot towel, or hot pack).

Need to use support braces such as neck braces, lumbar braces to reduce discomfort, but do not use for a long time as weakening the muscles supporting the spine.

Stopping normal physical activity for the first few days to relieve pain and reduce inflammation. Exercise gently with the spinal range.

Sleep with a mattress hard enough without a pillow or special pillow.

Avoid overly normal sports like weightlifting, heavy exercise. Should play gentle sports such as swimming, aerobic exercise, yoga.

Sports should not be performed in the early stages unless the doctor agrees: running, soccer, golf, ballet, lifting weights, lifting the legs while lying on his stomach, sitting up with his legs straight.