What’s wrong with sleeping with back pain?



Sleeping back pain may be caused by incorrect sleeping posture, cold stimulation, lumbar muscle strain or lumbar disc herniation.

1. Incorrect sleeping posture: when sleeping, if the long-term posture is not appropriate, it will make the back keep a rigid posture for a long time, which will cause local muscle spasm, thus appearing back pain.

2. Cold stimulation: when the back is stimulated by cold, it will have a certain impact on the local blood circulation, causing a reduction in the supply of blood and oxygen to the soft tissues, resulting in back pain.

3. Lumbar muscle strain: when the muscles of the lumbar back are subjected to chronic long-term strain, muscle strain will occur, and when the back is lying flat during sleep, the muscle tissues will be unbalanced and spasm, and pain will occur.

4. Herniated lumbar intervertebral discs: patients with herniated lumbar intervertebral discs can cause back nerve compression and irritation of the muscles and soft tissues in the back, which will produce back pain symptoms or aggravation of back pain symptoms.

The patient should go to the hospital in time to determine the condition under the doctor’s diagnosis, and choose the appropriate way of treatment according to different situations.