When many people mention lumbar disc herniation, the first symptom that comes to mind is low back pain. On the other hand, if there is low back pain, is it related to lumbar disc herniation? The answer is definitely no, there are many diseases that can cause low back pain. So if we have low back pain in our daily life, how can we roughly distinguish the causes of our low back pain? Is there any self-testing method to determine if symptoms are related to lumbar disc herniation? Today I will give you a brief introduction.
Simple low back pain, mostly unrelated to lumbar disc herniation!
If it is only simple low back pain, and does not cause pain in the thighs and calves, the low back pain at this time is most likely not caused by lumbar disc herniation, but is likely to be caused by lumbar muscle strain, low back myofasciitis, or discogenic low back pain and other causes.
If you have low back and leg pain, you can do this action to simply detect lumbar disc herniation!
The biggest feature of lumbar disc herniation is that the patient will have radioactive lower extremity pain. If you have leg pain at the same time as low back pain, you can do the following action to simply test whether the symptoms of low back and leg pain are related to lumbar disc herniation.
This action is straight legs and bending down, and everyone can do it themselves at home. Straight-legged bending can detect whether there are root symptoms of the sciatic nerve after traction, and through this point, it can be roughly judged whether there is a lumbar disc herniation.
The method of straight legs bending is: stand upright with both legs, and then bend down at the waist, bend to 90 degrees, and then bend down, if there is a discharge-like calf pain from the waist down, you must be highly vigilant for lumbar disc herniation.
Notes:
What is observed here is calf pain! Because this action involves the sciatic nerve, that is, the lumbar 4 and lumbar 5 nerve roots that are most often compressed in lumbar disc herniation, it is the traction symptoms after their compression. Therefore, if you do have lumbar disc herniation, the pain symptoms that reflect when doing this action must occur in the lower leg, and the specific part may be located on the back or outside of the calf.
2. There is another feature of leg pain caused by straight leg bending action in patients with lumbar disc herniation, which is radiation pain. Many people may not be able to tell that the leg pain at this time is not the kind of pain that the ligaments are pulled when we do this action, but the radiation pain, and suddenly in an instant like pulling the trigger, the whole calf appears in a flash of radioactive pain.
If you want to make a clear diagnosis, you still need to go to a regular hospital for examination!
This method is simple and easy to implement, but it can only be used as a reference, not as a diagnostic basis, and there is a high probability of error when people operate and feel on their own. We can do this action for a simple identification before going to the doctor, but don't make up your own mind about the disease and blindly start treatment.
Finally, I still remind everyone: after the occurrence of low back and leg pain, we must go to the regular hospital for examination as soon as possible and make a clear diagnosis after scientific treatment.