Many patients have spinal stenosis and ask if they can still massage, massage, or whether these measures can help with treatment. Today, I would like to let Li Weixin, director of the Neurosurgery Spine Group of the Tangdu Hospital of the Air Force Military Medical University, give a lecture to everyone.
With lumbar spinal stenosis, can I still massage and massage?
The answer is yes, you can massage, massage. Because most patients with lumbar spinal stenosis will have some muscle and fascia pain, massage and massage can alleviate these symptoms. Therefore, patients with lumbar spinal stenosis can be properly massaged and massaged, but they should be carried out in a regular medical place.
Here we also have to pay special attention to the fact that not all segments of spinal stenosis can be massaged and massaged, such as cervical spinal stenosis, and has been compressed to the spinal cord, at this time it is best not to carry out massage at will, to be particularly cautious! The lumbar spine is different from the cervical spine, and the cervical spinal canal is walked in the spinal cord, while the lumbar spinal canal is not. Therefore, it is not recommended to massage the cervical spine at will, improper massage and massage may aggravate spinal cord compression, and the risk is high.
Can massage and tuina treat lumbar spinal stenosis?
Patients with lumbar spinal stenosis go to massage and massage, in fact, can not really treat lumbar spinal stenosis, the treatment effect can be said to be "almost nothing".
What is the effect of massage and massage? Can relieve the pain in the waist, but can not treat lumbar spinal stenosis, such as yellow ligament thickening, disc herniation, bone hyperplasia these common causes of lumbar spinal stenosis, outside to massage muscles, loosen the fascia, on the inside of these causes have no effect at all.
Therefore, the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis really needs to see the cause of spinal stenosis and then treat this cause.
What are the treatments for lumbar spinal stenosis?
In general, treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis includes conservative treatment and surgical treatment. For some patients with milder symptoms and milder disease, conservative treatment can alleviate symptoms to a certain extent. However, most of the patients with lumbar spinal stenosis are the elderly, many patients come to the hospital when the symptoms are already very serious, the pain is unbearable, or there are serious problems with walking, this time conservative treatment is not effective, need to consider surgical treatment.
However, patient friends do not worry too much, the current operation of such degenerative diseases of the lumbar spine is minimally invasive surgery, postoperative recovery is fast, safe and effective, can greatly improve the quality of life of the elderly. Here to remind everyone, if your condition does reach the point where surgical intervention is needed, the earlier the operation should be, the better, the risk of surgery is relatively small, and the patient's postoperative function is also better and faster. Because nerve damage is irreversible, if the best time for surgery has passed, it may not be possible to restore function well after surgery, and the complexity and risk of surgery will increase.