Lumbar osteoarthritis is a kind of osteoarthritis, so what is osteoarthritis?
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease, which seriously affects the quality of life of patients. It can occur in any joint of the whole body, especially in joints with large stress and activity.
Lumbar osteoarthritis is also a common and frequently-occurring disease in middle-aged and elderly people, and the incidence rate increases with age. According to the survey, the prevalence rate of people over 60 in China is as high as 50%, and that of people over 75 is even as high as 80%. If you are engaged in occupations that rely on the load-bearing and functional activities of the lumbar spine, it will accelerate the degeneration of the lumbar spine and make the onset age younger.
It can be seen that the incidence of lumbar osteoarthritis is very high, and it will be accompanied by low back pain and leg numbness in severe cases. This symptom (low back pain with leg numbness) is similar to lumbar disc herniation (sometimes lumbar CT differential diagnosis is needed).
Why does lumbar osteoarthritis cause low back pain or leg numbness?
There are two reasons: first, the nerves are stimulated by compression, which leads to pain and numbness.
Because of the hyperplasia, hypertrophy and deformation of lumbar facet joints, nerve roots of corresponding segments are stimulated or compressed, which leads to lumbar nerve stimulation and pain, accompanied by numbness and pain in the controlled area.
Followed by local aseptic inflammation.
Some chemical inflammatory factors can be released during the trauma and inflammation of lumbar facet joints, and these inflammatory factors can also directly stimulate nerve fibers to produce numbness and pain reactions.
Is there a targeted treatment for the disease? Is the treatment of lumbar disc herniation effective?
At present, there is no specific western medicine for this disease. Just like lumbar disc herniation, western medicine often uses non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, analgesics and corticosteroids to treat pain, which can eliminate local aseptic inflammation and relieve pain, but many side effects can only be taken for a short time (within 5 days), and the condition is easy to repeat;
Traditional Chinese medicine has a good effect on osteoarthritis. Does this disease belong to Chinese medicine? Osteoarthralgia? Category. Most of them are exogenous wind, cold and dampness, cold and dampness, thief wind, phlegm, damp-heat and blood stasis, which are mutually cemented and connected. Chinese patent medicine should disperse cold pathogens, warm meridians and dredge collaterals, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, relieve spasm and phlegm, and relieve swelling and pain. Yaotongning? As a representative.
Chinese medicine treatment pays attention to overall harmony and has great advantages. External massage can relax tendons and activate collaterals, warm channels and dispel cold, eliminate dampness and relieve pain according to local symptoms. Oral Chinese medicine * * * can achieve the effect of strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil, and at the same time, it has little side effects, good effect and is easily accepted by patients.
In addition, reduce the waist load (such as losing weight and reducing waist activities, etc.). ) and moderate back muscle exercise is beneficial to relieve the pain of lumbar osteoarthritis.