About 80% of people experience low back pain at some time in their lives.
The research results of adults in China show that the age group of 35 ~ 55 is the age of low back pain.
Why is the waist sore and uncomfortable?
Is it lumbar disc herniation? Is it lumbar muscle strain?
How can we relieve it?
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How does the waist hurt?
Lumbago can be roughly divided into acute and chronic.
The most common cause of acute lumbago is usually soft tissue strain such as muscle ligament. There are also a few acute lumbago caused by lumbar fracture and lumbar disc herniation.
However, the causes of chronic lumbago will be more complicated, mainly including lumbar muscle strain, osteoporosis, intervertebral disc diseases, lumbar nerve-related diseases, etc. Sometimes, it is even difficult to determine the exact cause, so it is relatively difficult to deal with it.
Ninety percent of patients with lumbago can be relieved within 1 month, but the recurrence rate of lumbago is not low.
However, after one attack of lumbago, the possibility of recurrent lumbago is 4 times higher than that of ordinary people.
My lumbago may be the cause of what?
Clinically, lumbar disc herniation and lumbar muscle strain are the most common. In addition, for elderly friends, aging and decline of lumbar spine is also one of the main causes of lumbago.
Different reasons cause lumbago, slightly different, which can help everyone to a certain extent, roughly understand the possible causes of their lumbago.
1. Protrusion of lumbar intervertebral disc
In addition to lumbago, there will also be pain or numbness in one leg.
If you straighten your knees and lift your legs, you will feel more pain. Or pad your toes and walk on your heels for about 50 meters, and begin to feel leg pain, suggesting that it is probably lumbar disc herniation.
2. Lumbar muscle strain
It is usually characterized by increased pain when tired and improved when resting. Generally, there will be no pain below the knee joint.
3. Lumbar spinal stenosis
After walking 400 or 500 meters, my legs felt numb and boring.
4. Articular process-derived lumbago
There is a part of the bone of the lumbar spine called articular process, which will gradually age together with the bone of the lumbar spine. In this process, cartilage on the joint will appear inflammation, stimulate nerve endings and cause pain.
Lumbago due to this reason is often aggravated when twisting the waist, standing or stretching back, and improved when sitting and bending forward.
5. Discogenic lumbago
As the name implies, lumbago caused by intervertebral disc lesions, but usually there is no lumbar disc herniation.
Persistent pain, aggravation after walking and standing for a long time, and even sneezing will aggravate the symptoms.
It should be emphasized that the above description is for reference only. Some pain manifestations are not typical or specific, so if lumbago occurs, the most important thing to do is to go to the hospital in time and ask a professional doctor to check and clarify the reason.
Only by carrying out targeted treatment in this way can we get better and faster.
These people’s waist is more prone to pain…
Lumbago is closely related to occupational factors.
Drivers, white-collar workers, soldiers, construction workers, farmers… These professional people who need to sit, stand or bend over for a long time generally have a high prevalence rate of lumbago.
Smoking is closely related to lumbago.
Smoking can cause vasospasm around the intervertebral disc, thus reducing the blood supply of the intervertebral disc and reducing the exchange of nutrition and metabolites. Bronchitis and cough caused by smoking can also aggravate the symptoms of lumbago.
The more you smoke, the easier it is to suffer from lumbago.
Rainy, humid, cold and other climate changes often induce the onset or aggravation of lumbago.
Another interesting point is that lumbago is also related to emotional state.
Some studies have confirmed that the incidence of low back pain is about 2.5 times higher for those who are dissatisfied with their work than those who are satisfied, and the incidence of low back pain is higher for those who have bad relationships with leaders and colleagues.
Low back pain, can you do some what?
Step 1 Move and not be quiet
Absolute bed rest is not recommended for lumbago. Within the tolerable range of pain, maintaining moderate daily activities is more beneficial to relief and recovery.
2. Relax and cold compress to deal with acute lumbago
When acute low back pain occurs, find a place to lie down, relax the waist muscles as much as possible for 5 minutes, do not rub. Then use both elbows to prop up the shoulder, abdomen to the ground, make the spine lumbar segment full back, and stick to it for 5 minutes. This action can usually relieve acute low back pain.
If it is a sprain of waist and back, cold compress can reduce hemorrhage and edema in the first two or three days, and hot compress can promote edema absorption after three days.
3. What else can be done
Short-term use of painkillers and muscle relaxing drugs can relieve pain.
A mattress with moderate hardness is better than a hard board bed to relieve lumbago.
Swimming, [bridge exercise] or [swallow exercise] can effectively prevent the recurrence of non-acute lumbago.
Avoiding a fixed posture for a long time can effectively reduce lumbago.
Quit smoking. Keep a good mood.
I hope Dr. Clove’s explanation can hit the [waist] injury, so that everyone will no longer bow down for pain, but will have healthy waist and back and smooth activities.