Many people in life do not understand whether they are lumbar muscle strain or lumbar disc herniation . Today I will talk to you about these two diseases.
lumbar muscle strain We also call "functional low back pain", " lumbar and dorsal myofasciitis ", etc., mainly refer to chronic damage to soft tissues such as lumbar sacral muscles, fascia , etc. Lumbar muscle strain accounts for a relatively large proportion of chronic low back pain. However, there are many reasons for lumbar muscle injury. Some people are caused by acute lumbar sprain and after , which is caused by repeated lumbar muscle injury; some people maintain a certain unbalanced position for a long time due to labor, such as engaging in bent over for a long time; some people are caused by long-term poor posture, etc.
In addition, if there is congenital malformation of the lumbosacral vertebra, there will be inconsistent mobility of both sides of lumbosacral , which will easily lead to fatigue of the soft tissues of the lumbosacral vertebra and low back pain. Such patients generally have a long history of low back pain.
Lumbar disc herniation refers to a syndrome caused by trauma or degeneration of the lumbar disc (composed of the nucleus pulposus, annucleus fibrillary and cartilage plate), and partially or completely rupture of the annucleus fibrillary fibrillary, undergoing structural changes, and nucleus pulposus herniation stimulating or compressing the nerve root and caudal equine nerve. It mainly manifests as back pain, sciatica , lower limb numbness and caudal equine syndrome .
Since both have low back pain, many patients will not distinguish them when they have low back pain. They often think that they have a lumbar disc herniation. In fact, they can be distinguished from these aspects.
Lumbar muscle strain only shows pain in the muscles on both sides of the waist. The inflammation is obvious and may swell. When twisting, the muscles may cause pain, but it will not affect the nerves, and there will be no radiation pain in the lower limbs , numbness. In addition to low back pain, lumbar disc herniation will also cause radiation pain in the lower limbs. The pain is relatively severe and cannot be relieved or not significantly relieved after relief, and there is certain restriction of movement.
