Today is the last day of the Spring Festival holiday
I'm going to work tomorrow!
Flag at the beginning of last year
How many have you implemented?
How many are you going to set up this year?
It is said that middle-aged people are the most difficult
There are old and small
Carrying the pressure of the whole family to move forward
Take care of the elderly and take care of children
But they often neglect their physical health
In the course of time
This "middle-aged disease" is getting worse and worse...
The 36-year-old chef suddenly "paralyzed"
"I really thank you very much, now that you have a good body, you can work hard again in the new year!" Chen Gang (pseudonym), a 36-year-old man from Sichuan, said happily on the other end of the phone.
After graduating from vocational high school, Chen Gang came to Zhejiang with several fellow villagers to "break into the world", drove trucks, did small business, because he loved food, he also liked to cook, and finally identified the profession of "chef", studied with the master for several years, and became a chef in a high school in Jiaxing, doing it for more than ten years. During this period, he got married and had children, and with the burden of the elderly in the family, he has been working diligently and earnestly.
One day in November 2021, Chen Gang, who was busy cutting vegetables and stir-frying vegetables as usual, suddenly felt waist pain. "I thought I just didn't have a good rest, took a leave of absence from the leader, and went back to rest." However, after taking a nap, Chen Gang found that his low back pain not only had not been alleviated, but also his legs were weak, numb from the waist to the root of his thighs, and he could not stand up.
At this time, Chen Gang panicked, accompanied by his family, rushed to the hospital near his home and was diagnosed with lumbar intervertebral disc herniation. But after several days of treatment, it did not get better, and what was worse was that Chen Gang found that it was very difficult to urinate. At the suggestion of a friend, he hurried to Hangzhou in a wheelchair and came to the expert clinic of Professor Wang Yue, deputy director of the Department of Orthopedics of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine.
The innovative surgery got him back on his feet
Sudden low back pain, leg pain, it seems to be very similar to lumbar disc herniation, but Professor Wang Yue's rich experience has made him pay attention to more details.
Lumbar disc herniation is generally unilateral leg pain, and from the buttocks to the feet will have pain, Chen Gang although there is low back pain, but the tenderness of the site is relatively high, and is the pain of the legs, especially the groin and the root of the thigh is particularly obvious, while the urinary and urine dysfunction, lower limb tendon reflex hyperreflexia - this is likely to point to the more rare thoracic disc herniation.
Sure enough, the thoracic magnetic resonance and CT examination confirmed Professor Wang Yue's judgment. Chen Gang suffered from a herniated and calcified thoracic disc, and had been compressed into the spinal cord. The only way to do this is to surgically remove the protruding thoracic disc and relieve the compression of the spinal cord.
Compared with lumbar disc herniation surgery, thoracic disc surgery, especially calcified disc resection, is quite risky. The operation space of the operation is very small, and the protruding disc has been substantially compressed to the spinal cord, the patient has been semi-paralyzed, if the operation accidentally touches the spinal cord again, like a goal in the door, it will aggravate the paraplegia.
Under the guidance of Professor Hu Yiguo, Director of orthopedics, Professor Wang Yue's expert team formulated the industry's most advanced thoracic disc herniation surgical program for Chen Gang - endoscopic assisted thoracic discectomy.
To make an analogy, a wall next to a pillar, the pillar has a deformation protruding from the wall to suppress the wall, and there is a thin layer of curtains between the wall and the pillar, the traditional way, is to go in from the gap in the wall, cut off the deformed part of the pillar, once the curtain will also cause the entire house to collapse, difficult and risky; and the new way is to first dismantle a part of the wall, and then bypass the curtain, obliquely put into an "endoscope", expand the field of view several times at once, you can accurately cut off the deformed part of the pillar, Finally, the demolished wall is repaired. This surgical method greatly reduces the risk, can accurately remove the calcified disc, and the trauma is small, and the recovery is fast.
Soon, Professor Wang Yue mastered the knife and successfully completed this innovative operation for Chen Gang. Three days after the operation, Chen Gang can get off the ground and walk. Getting back up and walking is the best New Year's gift for Chen Gang, who is already in a wheelchair!
Prevention does this
Xiaobian has heard of lumbar disc herniation, and I have never heard of thoracic disc herniation.
In fact, ta belong to the "big family" of intervertebral disc herniation.
Disc herniation is one of the more common degenerative diseases of the spine, which can occur in various spinal segments of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar vertebrae. In layman's terms, the intervertebral disc is a gasket tissue in the middle of one section of the spine, which is elastic and maintains the flexibility of the spine, but under the condition of long-term weight bearing, improper posture or other precipitating factors, the intervertebral disc protrudes backwards, which will stimulate or compress the spinal cord and spinal nerve roots in the rear spinal canal. Disc herniation in different parts can cause different symptoms, such as neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain or numbness, and may even cause weakness and paralysis of the lower limbs. However, some patients did not have obvious symptoms at the beginning of the disease, like Chen Gang, who waited until the compression of the spinal cord had severe dysfunction before being discovered.
We usually most often hear about the lumbar disc herniation, with these years electronic products more and more deeply into all aspects of people's work and life, because of long-term low-head brushing mobile phones and other improper posture, cervical disc herniation is also more common, relatively speaking, thoracic disc herniation is less, because the chest has more bone fixation, about 100 cases of disc herniation, only about 2 cases of thoracic disc herniation.
However, with the continuous improvement of various examination methods, the diagnosis rate of the disease has increased in recent years. Professor Wang Yue's expert team has recently received 4 cases of thoracic disc herniation patients, and the common point is that the body size is relatively obese, making the spine overweight for a long time, and it is in the habit of bending over and sitting for a long time. Like Chen Gang, who is in his early sevens of a meter tall, he has more than 200 pounds, and because of the need to stand and bend for a long time due to work, he almost never exercises.
Experts from the Department of Orthopedics of the First Hospital of Zhejiang University told us that no matter what kind of "intervertebral disc herniation", patients are basically young and middle-aged people between 30 and 50 years old, in addition to heavy physical labor and acute trauma, most of them are related to long-term low head or bending, sitting for a long time and other bad posture and habits, or long-term desk work, long-term standing work, working in a bumpy state, overwork.
Experts suggest that if you want to prevent herniated discs, the best way is to strengthen exercise, whether it is swimming, or playing basketball, the most important thing is to be persistent, on the one hand, you can increase the strength of the low back muscles, on the other hand, you can also maintain the body shape and reduce the weight of the spine. In addition, it is a cliché to pay attention to improving poor posture and avoid being in the same posture for a long time.