Cauda equina syndrome is a condition that occurs when the cauda equina nerve is compressed. Its clinical manifestations are mainly low back pain, lower extremity weakness, paralysis, bowel and bladder dysfunction, lower extremity varicose veins and other symptoms.
Let’s take a look at the specific symptoms of cauda equina syndrome:
1. Low back pain
Low back pain is mostly acute onset, with no clear incentive for sudden onset. After sciatic nerve root compression, patients present with lower extremity pain, usually radiating along the lumbar vertebrae to the buttocks, and often with buttock muscle spasm syndrome.
The symptoms are: (1) Sciatica: mostly intermittent or persistent low back pain or tingling pain associated with spinal stenosis.
(2) Decreased lumbar muscle strength: incomplete claudication and difficulty in walking.
(3) Straight leg raising test: For patients with lumbar intervertebral disc herniation when the patient is lying down or in a semi-recumbent position, 5-6 heel raising tests may be positive on each side. These changes may be related to chronic psoas strain or may be due to pelvic tilt.
2. Lower limb weakness
Lower extremity weakness is the main manifestation after cauda equina compression and is the main cause of paralysis, especially in the lumbosacral and lower extremity range of motion.
Clinically, muscle weakness of both lower extremities is the most common. Mostly unilateral in the early stage. Later, it gradually developed to paralysis of both lower extremities, sometimes involving both sacroiliac joints and sacrum. In severe cases, symptoms of perineal numbness, decreased sensation or even disappearance may occur.
3. Paralysis
Spinal cord injury combined with cauda equina syndrome is characterized by fibrosis in the area of nerve distribution compressed after spinal cord injury. Physical activity disturbances, sensory disturbances, and bowel and bladder dysfunction may occur. There are no clinical symptoms in the early stage. When the lesion worsens, the large vessel compression reaction type appears.
In the early stage, there are hypoesthesia and bowel and bladder disorders, and in the middle stage, there is increased muscle tone. In the late stage, sensory disturbance and bowel and bladder dysfunction due to nerve damage, severe paralysis or surgical treatment.
Chinese treatment
Shengjing Yiqi Decoction , the name of a Chinese medicine prescription. As a tonic, it has the effects of relaxing tendons and collaterals, nourishing qi and nourishing blood, and nourishing deficiency. He has rich experience in the treatment of spleen and stomach disharmony, meridian blockage, qi deficiency and blood stagnation, limb atrophy, muscle and skin numbness, liver and kidney weakness, loose stools, and dysuria. It is commonly used in clinical treatment of cauda equina syndrome, such as muscle weakness, muscle atrophy, constipation, urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, limb pain and numbness, anal bulge, sensory abnormalities, sexual dysfunction, foot drop , etc.
The traditional Chinese medicine treatment of cauda equina nerve injury is in line with the overall concept of the human body and contains a large number of nutrients necessary for the human body . Multi-neural, multi-cellular, multi-functional active treatment.
Shengjing Yiqi Decoction is not a patented medicine, and it is not sold in pharmacies . Of course, it does not have a batch number, because it is not a patented drug and will not be mass-produced. individual.
Here we remind everyone to take Shengjing Yiqi Decoction under the guidance of a professional pharmacist!