Stand, sit, lying well to protect the lumbar intervertebral disc

2017-01-19

Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine

  Patients with lumbar disc herniation must pay attention to standing, because of poor standing posture, such as hunchback or left and right tilt, can make the lumbar disc to withstand the pressure is too large, is the risk of disease. The correct posture should be two head-level as the front, chest, micro-abdomen to ensure that the back is not tilted upright, legs, the average focus, legs shoulder width apart, the entire posture should ensure that the axis of human gravity and lumbar Bearing line coincides with gravity. In addition should be avoided for a long time to maintain a standing posture, to prevent the local lumbar spasm lead to increased pressure within the lumbar disc. The above measures can effectively prevent the disc to withstand stress and stress concentration, to eliminate the hidden dangers of disease.
  How "sit"
  Sitting in the prevention and rehabilitation of lumbar disc herniation is equally important. Should choose the right seat, the height of the seat to be with the proportion of my height is moderate, with backrest, the material should be selected hard or hard side. Should avoid the "Rocker Erlang legs", bow and other poor desk posture, the right posture should be the upper body naturally straight, lower extremity natural relaxation together, the best choice for a backrest and its curve line with the body's physiological curve of the seat, the upper body can naturally rely on Back, this is conducive to better relaxation of the waist. For desk work, should try to shorten the distance between the chair and the table, the upper body should be kept upright or back in the back of the chair to relax the lumbar muscle to reduce the pressure within the disc, to minimize the lumbar and surrounding muscles strain. In addition, should avoid sedentary, sedentary will lead to psoas spasm and strain, easily lead to lumbar disc herniation, so people's daily life and work, "sitting" after a period of time should be timely "stretch" or stand up activities .
  How "lying"
  Nearly one-third of a person's life is spent in the "lying" posture, so the position for the prevention and rehabilitation of lumbar disc herniation is particularly important. Bedding choice is very important, the general choice of hard-bed, should avoid sofas and other soft bedding.
  Supine and lateral position to the main limbs, natural stretching, should not be too much bow and lateral song, supine when appropriate under the pad in the lower limbs of a pad, so that the knee slightly bent, is conducive to relaxation and psoas muscle Decreased intervertebral disc pressure.