| Protrusion of the lumbar intervertebral (LDP)disc is a common disease of which pain in waist and legs is the main clinical manifestaion. Modern medicine indicates: the important reasonof the pain in waist and legs of LDP is nerve roots be pressed by the extruded nucleus gelatinosus, and this causes nerve roots product wounded inflammation. Nerve roots will be conglutinated with the prominence, and will be fibrosis. This is the main reason of the following dyskinesiaand abnormity of sense.Base on the analysis of the thirty-two cases of clinical observation by massage. There is five cases are completely cure, and twenty-four cases have shown improvement. The effectiveness is as high as 93.7%. Only three cases did not improve. To observe morphological changes of LDP of post-treatment by computerized tomography (CT) scanning. No ' differences were found between pre-treatment and post-treatment (P>0.05) in relation to extent of extrusion of lumbar disc. This shows the extrusive lumbar disc whether return or not is not determinant. The importance mechanisms of treatment with massage are these: it can loosen the conglutination of the lumbar disc and nerve roots to influence the ubiety between them, it also can relieve or unchain the pressure of vas plexus around nerve roots by the lumbar disc to adjust effective cubage of thevasals of nerve roots and meliorate the local blood circulation. |