Traditional Chinese Medicine

*Waist movement disorder
Activities in all aspects of the waist are affected, especially after the extension is obvious obstacles. Small number of patients was limited in bending.
*Back pain
Most patients several weeks or months of low back pain history, or history of recurrent episodes of low back pain. Varying degree of severity of low back pain, severe cases can affect the stand and sit. General symptoms were relieved after rest, coughing, sneezing or hard stool, can make the pain worse.
*Sciatica
Side of the lower extremity radiating pain sciatic nerve area is the main symptom of this disease, often disappear or reduce in low back pain occurs. Pain from the hip, gradually radiology sub thigh, lateral leg, and some may progress to lateral dorsal, palm heel or foot, affecting standing and walking. If the salient in the center, in the cauda equina symptoms, and bilateral outstanding may be bilateral if radiation or alternating.
*Scoliosis
Most patients have varying degrees of lumbar scoliosis. Scoliosis can indicate the direction of the location and prominence of the relationship between the nerve root.
*Limb temperature drop
Many patients with limb feels cold, objective examination, compared with the contralateral lower limb temperature; some dorsalis pedis pulse is weak, which is due to sympathetic stimulation caused.
*View numbness
Severe patients, often subjective numbness. In the lateral lower leg, dorsal foot, heel or foot palm.
The diagnosis of lumbar disc herniation, in addition to medical history and physical examination signs of change, there is an important imaging diagnosis: such as X-ray, CT, MRI and so on.