What is lumbar strain?
If you have recurrent low back pain, be alert to lumbar strain! Do you meet the following symptoms of lumbar strain?
1.Soreness or swelling of the lumbar area, some tingling or burning pain.
2.Lumbar pain is aggravated by exertion, relieved by rest, relieved by proper activity and frequent change of position, and aggravated by excessive activity.
3.Can’t insist on bending down to work. Often forced to stretch or hammer the waist to relieve pain. Once there is pain in the lower half of the night or pain in the morning, it means the adhesion of myofascial, the scar is more obvious, compressing the local blood vessels, and the hypoxic pain naturally appears at night from time to time.
4.The pain can change with climate change or the degree of exertion, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, and lingering.
5.Some patients may have lower branch pulling pain, but no string pain and skin numbness.
How to protect against lumbar muscle strain?
1.Prevent dampness, cold and cold. Do not sleep in damp places at will. According to the change of climate, add clothes at any time; after sweating and rain, replace wet clothes or dry your body in time. When it is cold, you can apply hot compresses to the waist.
2, acute lumbar sprain should be actively treated, rest at ease, to avoid turning into chronic.
3, sports or strenuous activities before, to do a good job of preparation activities.
4, correct poor work posture, such as bending too long, or ambling too low, etc.. Soft pillows can be padded at the waist when sitting and lying.
5, to prevent overwork, people are like a machine, excessive operation or overload use, will inevitably lead to damage to certain parts or the entire machine. Therefore, pay attention to the work or labor in the labor and leisure.
6, the use of hard board upholstered bed, sleep is one of the important part of people’s lives. The suitability of the bed directly affects the health of people, too soft mattress can not maintain the normal physiological curvature of the spine, so it is best to add a 10 cm thick cushion on the board.
7, pay attention to weight loss, weight control. The body is too obese, is bound to bring extra burden to the waist, especially middle-aged people and women after childbirth, are easy to gain weight period, moderate diet, strengthen exercise is necessary.
8, abstain from sexual intercourse, “waist for the kidney of the House”, sexual intercourse too often is bound to damage the kidneys, kidney deficiency is waist pain.
9, labor, labor posture is not correct, easy to cause lumbar muscle strain. Avoid weight, when carrying heavy objects, chest waist slightly bent forward, hips and knees slightly flexed, step should be stable, the step is not big.
Self-massage to prevent lumbar strain injury ten methods
1, push the two hands to rub after the heat, overlap put in the lumbar vertebrae, from the top down to push the rub 30-50 times, until the local heat sensation.
2, pinch the foot forward and sit, or bend the knee, or sitting posture, can be. The two hands are pinched, lifting and placing the lumbar muscles 15-20 times.
3, knead take a sitting posture. Both hands five fingers together, respectively, placed on the left and right sides of the back waist, with the palm of the upper and lower slowly rubbed, until hot.
4, knocking with both hands half clenched fist, with the back of the two fists lightly knock the waist lament, in order not to cause pain as degree. Left and right at the same time, each lightly knock 30 times.
5.Shake two hands in the waist, palm root pressed at the waist eye, rapid up and down shaking 15 to 20 times.
6.Rolling two hands in a fist, from the abdomen to the upper and lower rolling, massage. First from the bottom to the top, and then from the top to the bottom, repeatedly. The upper body can be combined with forward and backward leaning.
7, grasp the hands against the waist, thumb in front, pressed on the waist side of the motionless, the remaining four fingers from both sides of the lumbar vertebrae with the finger belly outward grasping skin, each side of the grasp 36 times.
8, point to take a sitting position, with the fingertips of the middle fingers of both hands, respectively, press the two legs in the point (the posterior fossa of the knee joint is in the middle) 1-2 minutes, the pressed parts should appear sore, numb, swollen feeling.
9, press the two hands crossed waist, thumbs pressed on both sides of the waist eye, squeeze hard, and rotate and knead, first clockwise, then counterclockwise, each 36 turns.
10, in addition to local massage, shaking the abdomen can also prevent lumbar muscle strain. Specific introduction of two methods, for reference:
① turn the bladder to transport the waist standing position, hands crossed waist, thumb in front, the remaining four fingers in the back, the middle finger pressed in the waist eye, such as Chinese medicine said the kidney points on, inhalation, the body from left to right swing, exhale from right to left swing, a breath a suction for a time, can be done 30 times in a row.
② rotate the waist and turn the back to take a standing position, both hands up to both sides of the head and shoulder width, thumb tip and shoulder height, palms relative. When breathing in, twist the upper body from left to right, and twist the head backwards, and when breathing out, twist from right to left, one breathing in and one breathing out for one time, can be done 30 times in a row.
Warm needle treatment for lumbar muscle strain
Taking warm acupuncture to treat lumbar muscle strain achieves very good results. Warm acupuncture can loosen the adhesion of myofascia, increase the local blood flow, and eliminate the night pain and starting pain. The patient’s cooperation as follows is crucial: the eye of the needle should not be wet with water for three days after the warm needle procedure, keep the puncture site clean and dry, and pay attention to the warmth of the lumbar region.