When you experience low back pain while practicing core, you have to choose different treatment measures depending on the condition. Specific causes include physiologic, lumbar muscle strain, acute lumbar sprain, etc. The treatment methods are physical therapy, drug therapy.
1. Physiological reasons: when practicing core, if the patient’s movement exceeds the body load, the lumbar muscles have lactic acid accumulation, which triggers the soreness and pain. Appropriate rest can be recovered, the patient can also hot compress physical therapy to accelerate the metabolism of lactic acid, which in turn relieves the pain.
2. Lumbar muscle strain: When practicing core, the lumbar muscles are overloaded, which can trigger lumbar muscle strain, specifically manifested as lumbar pain, stiffness, it is recommended that the patient first conservative physical therapy, hot packs and physical therapy to relieve lumbar muscle stiffness. If there is no effect can take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen, can play the role of anti-inflammatory and analgesic.
3. Acute lumbar sprain: If you accidentally sprain your back during core exercises, you will experience localized pain. The patient can carry out the physical therapy of cold compresses followed by hot compresses, and can also take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen to reduce inflammation and analgesia, thus relieving the pain.
Generally speaking, back pain caused by core exercises does not need to go to the hospital for surgery, but if conservative treatment is ineffective, it is recommended that patients with core exercises and back pain go to the hospital for an examination, and choose the appropriate treatment according to their own situation.