Spinal pain, should not arbitrarily use analgesics and anti-inflammatory

Spinal pain is a symptom that can occur at any age. In fact, not all patients are diagnosed and treated properly.

The most worrisome is improper use of anti-inflammatory drugs and pain relief, and even abuse of these drugs tends to increase.Assoc. Prof. Dr. TRAN CONG DANAT, Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Biomedical Physics (Ministry of Defense), said:

- Most cases of spinal pain with signs of root compression, marrow compression are often caused by disc herniation, occurring on the basis of spinal degeneration plus injury and age factors. At this time, the patient feels pain, aches, numbness along the arms or legs, weakens limbs or muscle atrophy.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Cong Duyet (right) treat a patient with spinal disc herniation with laser puncture technique (Photo: TTO)

Conservation treatments such as internal medicine, physical therapy, acupuncture, massage only work with some mild and new hernias. In some health facilities, many doctors (BS) prefer to choose anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs to treat inflammatory diseases of the bones and joints. In fact, there are also a number of patients 'imitators' who voluntarily go to drugstores to buy anti-inflammatory drugs, relieve pain whenever they feel spinal pain without going to specialized medical facilities for medical examination.

Because of the use of anti-inflammatory drugs, pain relief is too long, arbitrarily increasing the dose arbitrarily, drinking incorrectly, lack of systematic monitoring of BS . that many patients have to suffer the consequences. Harmful fruits due to side effects of drugs.

According to statistics from Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Biomedical Physics, about 42% of patients said they had symptoms of peptic ulcer symptoms, elevated liver enzymes and many other symptoms due to treatment with anti-inflammatory, analgesic drugs for many years.

On the other hand, these drugs also cause many side effects such as reduced immunity, affecting liver function. If prolonged use can cause gastrointestinal mucosal ulcers, water retention, causing high blood pressure, bronchospasm, immunodeficiency, impaired liver function . And the most obvious is if used Long-term use of drugs also causes the phenomenon of drug resistance.

When suffering from spinal pain, it is best for patients to go to specialized medical facilities for proper examination and treatment. In addition to drug therapy, currently, besides the traditional open surgery method, there is a safer method of ' reducing laser disc intermittent pressure '. This method can help 80% of patients avoid open surgery.

Over the past nine years, more than 2,000 patients have been treated for spinal disc herniation at the HCM City Institute of Biomedical Physics. The success rate of treatment with this method is similar to that of European countries, Japan and the US.

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