In everyday life, there are many people who feel that their waist cannot be flattened when they are lying down to sleep, lumbar pain, or symptoms of lumbar pain when they are sleeping, most of which are more serious lumbar muscle strain (lumbar dorsal myofasciitis), or acute lumbar sprain, and lumbar disc herniation. So what should I do if I have low back pain while sleeping?
1.Put on a mattress
On hot days, put a mattress on top of a cool mat and put it under your body to avoid getting cold in your lower back.
2.Covered with a quilt
Be sure to cover your waist and joints with a quilt at night and pay attention to keeping warm, even if you turn on the air conditioner or fan on a hot day.
3.Avoid blowing wind when sleeping at night
Try not to turn on the air conditioner or fan when you sleep.
4.Do not overwork the waist
When working too hard during the day, it can lead to back pain at night when sleeping. So we should avoid overworking during the day.
5.Do appropriate waist exercise during the day
In the appropriate range of twisting the waist, some gymnastics, etc., to keep the waist joints open.
How to do when you often sleep flat on your back
1.Exercise therapy
Exercise can increase the flexibility of the muscles and joints, but also to enhance the strength and endurance of the muscles, which in turn improves the circulation of blood and physical and mental stress. Exercise can also help prevent soreness or help eliminate back pain, is the main method to treat back pain, is also an effective method, the best light exercise, is Tai Chi, Qigong and swimming.
2.Pushing and pressing therapy
When the back pain, the most common method is to carry out massage or massage for pain relief. Therefore, massage and massage help to release or reduce the physical and mental stress and muscle tension.
3.Traction therapy
This method for patients with herniated discs and lumbar foraminal stenosis, helps to open the distance between the vertebrae, avoiding the compression of nerves by bone spurs or cartilage, and helps to alleviate pain symptoms.
4.Acupuncture therapy
Acupuncture can promote the circulation of qi and blood, and has an analgesic effect, for acute pain has considerable therapeutic effect. For patients with chronic lumbar muscle strain, localized warm moxibustion can be applied, which has the effect of relaxing the tendons and activating the joints.
5.Physical therapy
Including ultrasound, electrotherapy, hot and cold compresses and other methods. Ultrasound can penetrate deep into the muscle tissue and generate heat, which helps to relieve pain and reduce swelling. Electrotherapy is the use of electrical stimulation, so that muscle cells regular movement, to relieve muscle hardening and pain. Cold compress is suitable for acute pain within one or two days, which has the effect of pain relief and swelling reduction; while hot compress is more suitable for chronic pain, which has the effect of improving local circulation and enhancing tissue resilience.
6.Medication
If the local stasis and swelling are hot and painful, external application of blood activating and swelling clearing medication can be applied; if there is no stasis and swelling but there is pain, external application of wound ointment can be applied. For internal use, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving drugs are generally used.