What are the advantages and disadvantages of traction treatment of lumbar vertebrae?

Benefits: Generally speaking, traction is suitable for the first onset. Traction can widen the intervertebral space to some extent, recapture some prominent intervertebral discs and relieve symptoms.

Danger: it may lead to the original adhesion of the tissue being forcibly pulled apart, making the condition worse. Not everyone can do traction. In addition, simple traction is not enough for the recovery of lumbar spine.

Lumbar traction requires a lot of strength, so manual traction is unlikely, and most of them are mechanical traction. Lumbar traction can be divided into intermittent and semi-continuous modes. The patient can lie on his stomach or on the treatment bed.

Extended data:

Lumbar diseases are mostly caused by improper use of lumbar vertebrae, which leads to increased local stress and a series of neurological symptoms of lower limbs, such as lumbar disc herniation. Traction therapy is a clinical conservative therapy to restore the original physiological curvature of lumbar spine and relax local muscles.

After the intervertebral space is stretched, the original curvature of the lumbar spine is restored with the later lumbar muscle function exercise. After the muscles after exercise reach a certain strength, the curvature of the lumbar spine will be well limited, so that the stress will be uniform and the local stress will not be too large, which will lead to lumbar lesions.

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