Sleeping on your back is generally not recommended for patients with herniated discs.
Because the human body’s lumbar spine has a certain curvature, sleeping on your back will increase the lumbar spine curvature, bringing pressure to the back muscles. At the same time, sleeping on your back will also cause pressure on organs in the chest cavity such as lungs, heart and other organs, easily triggering chest tightness, abdominal pain and other symptoms. In addition to sleep on the neck will be biased to one side, a long time may make the neck muscle strain, accelerate the degeneration of the cervical spine.
Patients with lumbar disc herniation should usually pay attention to the lumbar warmth, do not often lift heavy objects, avoid lumbar weight bearing. Sleeping posture can choose to lie flat on a hard board bed, you can also pad a small pillow in the waist.
For patients suffering from lumbar disc herniation, try to choose to sleep on the back, so as not to sleep on the stomach on the recovery of lumbar disc herniation is unfavorable, if the symptoms continue to be unable to alleviate, it is recommended to timely hospital consultation.