Treatment of the intervertebral hernia of the lumbosacral department at home

The intervertebral hernia of the lumbar region is a rather unpleasant disease, which is accompanied by severe pain in the spine. It is very important at the first symptoms of a hernia of the spine to identify the disease and begin treatment. Applying a complex treatment of the intervertebral hernia of the lumbar region can do without surgery.

• Intervertebral lumbar hernia symptoms
• The main methods of treatment
• How to treat a hernia with medicines
• Folk methods of treatment of the disease
• How to properly do the procedures: rubbing, compress, applique at home
• Folk funds only for external use
• Gymnastics and the intervertebral hernia
• Exercise # 1
• Exercise 2

Surgical intervention in many cases can be avoided, and we must try to do it in all available ways. Modern therapeutic methods are numerous and effective. You can not discount the national means, medicamental treatment and gymnastics. And although, for the treatment of the intervertebral hernia, there are few recipes in the folk medicine pantries, but they will help to get by without an operation.

Intervertebral lumbar hernia symptoms

Detection of the first symptom of the appearance of a hernia will help in a timely manner to respond to changes in the vertebral column and begin treatment. Often people do not pay attention to such manifestations as:

• tingling in the legs;
• numbness, sometimes at night;
• pain in the lumbar region, which is written off for overwork;
• feeling as if the legs had become "wadded";
• there may be pain in the upper part of the leg.

Depending on the vertebrae in which the hernia is formed, the symptoms may differ. So, for example, there may be a slight tingling in the big toe, a feeling of "crawling," a pain in the buttocks or in the region of the knees, ankles.

Symptoms of the intervertebral hernia of the lumbar spine may appear periodically or be present permanently. Do not underestimate these manifestations - immediately contact the nearest hospital for testing and diagnosis.

Important!Before proceeding to treatment, consult a doctor who treats a hernia!

The main methods of treatment

The most common methods of treatment for hernia are medicines and folk medicine, which contribute to the alleviation of pain in the disease. With timely access to a doctor to treat a herniated spine without surgery at home is quite possible.

How to treat a hernia with medicines

Medicamentous treatment of the intervertebral hernia of the lumbar spine is aimed at blocking the pain symptom. To do this, use non-steroidal drugs with anti-inflammatory effect. As a result, the puffiness of the lumbar region is removed, the pain goes away, the patient begins to feel better.

It is also used as a medicamentous treatment for hernia muscle relaxants and chondroprotectors. These funds are aimed at removing muscle spasms and protecting the intervertebral joints. However, it is worth considering that all drugs for the treatment of the intervertebral hernia of the lumbar region only relieve pain, but do not eliminate the cause of the disease.

Folk methods of treatment of the disease

It is important to know that treating the spine at home with folk remedies, especially the treatment of the intervertebral hernia of the lumbar spine, is effective only at an early stage of the disease, when surgical intervention does not make sense. At home, you can carry out various procedures that can significantly reduce the pain threshold, eliminate the main symptoms of a herniated lumbar spine and return a person full of life.

Attention!Believe me, in folk medicine, as in phytotherapy, there are few ways to treat an intervertebral hernia. The lists of funds listed on the Internet are mainly used to treat other diseases of the back and joints (osteoarthritis, arthritis, neuralgia, rheumatism, others).

For external use, compresses, grindings and applications are applied on alcohol or fat basis, less often - on water.

How to properly do the procedures: rubbing, compress, applique at home

Ointment

• rub with a palm, thumbs, a soft cotton rag;
• Circular movements, at first slow, gradually accelerate;
• duration - up to five minutes;
• On the rubbed place, put a cotton or woolen flap and tie the lower back;
• ointments are applied once or twice a day.

Application with ointment

They work more effectively and for longer, they can be worn in the afternoon, fixed with plaster:

• on a gauze small napkin to put a layer of the means;
• attach to the sore spot, completely covered with film;
• fix it with a band-aid or wrap up with a scarf;
• Appliques are done before bed or at night, stand for several hours.

Alcohol tinctures

It is better to rub it with a palm, which is poured a little by the means, each time adding a new portion after completely absorbing the previous one. The effectiveness will increase if rubbing is repeated several times a day:

• circular motions;
• grind for 5-10 minutes;
• Cover the area with a woolen cloth and reattach to the waist.

Attention!Rubbing the medicinal means with the intervertebral hernia, the movements should be without pressure and not too intense.

Compresses

They are put for a night or an afternoon for two or three hours:

• soak in the healing solution gauze napkin;
• put it on the waist, covering it with a film;
• top layer of cotton wool or knitted cotton fabric;
• wrapped in a woolen scarf or handkerchief.

Juniperus vulgaris

When inflammation of nerve endings and pains in the spine, tincture of juniper berries take 10-15 drops three times a day for a month. Simultaneously do morning and evening rubbing.

Tincture:

• 150 g of berries pour half a liter of strong home-made vodka;
• insist 20 days in a dark place, periodically shaking.

Attention!Preparations of juniper are contraindicated in cases of acute renal inflammatory diseases.

Mumiyeh

Its properties of rapid healing, renovation and restoration of tissues have become simply legendary. Simultaneous internal and external use with intervertebral hernia, it is necessary. Take mummies on an empty stomach, tablets of 0.2 g, dissolved in a small amount of water, twice a day. But the drug will have the best effect if it is gradually dissolved without water. Take the drug should be at least 10 days.

Ointment:

• crush 5 g of mummy (lying in the refrigerator, it is better broken);
• dissolve gradually in two tablespoons of water;
• after complete dissolution, pour a tablespoon of 90% alcohol;
• Dissolve the resulting solution in small portions to the melted pork fat or vaseline, which should be five times larger than the solution;
• stir to achieve homogeneity of the mass.

Use rubbing and appliqués. The duration of use is unlimited. You can rub in the back and an aqueous solution of 0.2 g of mummy, diluted in a tablespoon of water.

Honey

A stirred tablespoon of honey in half a glass of warm milk or water will provide the body with a host of essential substances, and will help in the period of inflammation. Honey cakes extinguish the inflammation and improve blood circulation: honey at room temperature (if too dense, then lightly submerge it) mix with potato starch to such a consistency that you can blind a lozenge. Put it on your back. Continue to act, as with the compress.

Propolis

It helps to restore tissues, relieves inflammation and pain.

Tincture:

• for every 40 g of ground propolis - 100 g of alcohol 70% of the strength;
• Propolis is poured with alcohol, insist for 10 days, shaking daily.

Do rubbing several times a day. In a painful period of inflammation and puffiness impose, as a compress, combining or alternating with medications. Tincture can take 20 drops with warm milk or water.

Folk funds only for external use

Sabelnik swamp

In folk medicine, vodka from the root is applied externally, as an antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and anesthetic:

• 50 g of dry roots pour 0.5 liters of 40% vodka;
• insist for at least 20 days.

Tincture rub or compress for pain, swelling, inflammation of nerve endings accompanying a hernia.

Comfrey Comfy

This plant is unique for its properties. It stimulates neoplasm and cell renewal, restores their internal structure, eliminates defects in damaged tissues. Outwardly, folk medicine uses root tincture in all cases when it is necessary to quickly heal. Ointment or alcohol tincture rub in a day at least three times, 15 minutes. Make compresses, applications.

Tincture:

• break the gram of 50 dry roots (herbalists sell them in markets, strung with small bundles, one is enough);
• put in a half-liter jar, and pour strong vodka or 60% alcohol for tinctures;
• endure, tightly closed, in a dark place for 20 days.

Ointment: the fresh crushed root is mixed in equal proportions with the heated pork fat.

Clay

How this tool works is incomprehensible, but its effect is amazing. And the result is noticeable very soon. Blue (blue) clay will quickly remove swelling and inflammation. Gradually calm and relieve pain. Red (all shades of orange) clay returns mobility to the joints, restores bone and cartilaginous tissue, accelerates the healing of damaged ligaments.

Applications:

• Dry clay is diluted with water to a homogeneous mass, such a density that it is molded;
• from it make a flat cake with a palm the size, centimeter thickness;
• On one layer of gauze lay a clay cake, wrapped in an envelope and put on a sick back patch;
• top cover with a film and reel to the waist.

Clay is kept on the back for 2-4 hours. For the whole night there is no point in laying a cake, as the clay has time to dry up and crumble till morning.

Attention!Secondary clay is not used, but discarded after each use. The second time it is not effective.

Gymnastics and the intervertebral hernia

At home, you can conduct gymnastics for the treatment of the intervertebral hernia of the lumbar region, but this is a very delicate matter. The main exercises with pain symptoms of the intervertebral hernia will be aimed at soft stretching of the spine to reduce pressure on the disc and on the restrained fibers.

Attention!Exercises are not done during severe pain with swelling and inflammation of the nerve bundles.

Exercise # 1

At home, the exercise is performed on a table covered with a bikini blanket. The starting position is to stand at the edge of the table. The hips are loosely pressed against the countertop. The palms rest on the surface of the table.

Performance:

1. Bending your elbows and moving your palms, slowly lie with your chest and stomach on the countertop. Do not strain your back. When moving, focus on the palm of your hand, and then on your elbows.
2. Lying on the table top of the trunk, legs slightly bend. The muscles of the legs and thighs relax. Buttocks and thighs are weighed down by their weight.
3. Make four slow deep breath inhalations.
4. To rise, focusing on the elbows, and then on the palms, returning to the starting position.
5. Repeat four times.

Exercise 2

The starting position - to get on all fours, the main emphasis on the palms, knees and toes. The knees and palms are wide apart. The palms are under the shoulder joints, the back is even. The head is inclined downwards. It is necessary to achieve complete relaxation of the back and neck.

Performance:

1. Take a deep slow breath into the stomach.
2. With a slow exhalation from the abdomen (navel, as if moving towards the spine), strain the muscles of the buttocks and anus. The back will involuntarily slightly bend upwards.
3. Do three or four such slow and deep breaths-exhalations.

Attention!Exercise done slowly, without muscle tension. If the pain increases, then the activity should be stopped.

The back is the trunk by which the vital forces of a person move. Therefore, the treatment of a herniated intervertebral disc of the lumbar region should be approached very responsibly, with the use of all treatments.

The intervertebral hernia, at any outcome, forces to change habitual behavior and a way of life. But in order for existence to remain full, it is necessary to exert all forces. And continue to adhere to the principle, which will become the main one for the next years: everything that can be done standing should be done while sitting; and all that can be done sitting should be done lying down.