The treatment of lumbar muscle strain includes general treatment, physical therapy, drug therapy and so on.
1. General treatment: patients need to stop activities immediately after the strain and bed rest, appropriate hydration, accelerate the body’s metabolism, if necessary, down to the ground activities can wear a waist cuff for protection.
2. Physical therapy: within 72 hours after the injury for the acute phase, patients need to be strained muscle ice bag or cool towel ice treatment, ice can be padded in the skin parts of a towel, to avoid direct contact with the skin; 72 hours later can be changed to hot compresses, and with the manipulation of massage, infrared irradiation, etc., to promote the repair of traumatic injuries.
3. Drug therapy: patients with obvious pain symptoms can take oral ibuprofen, indomethacin and other drugs to reduce local inflammation, reaction to relieve pain; patients with spasms after straining can take ethylpiperidone hydrochloride tablets, chlorzoxazone and other drugs to relieve muscle spasm; patients with intractable pain can also be localized pain closure therapy.
If the patient’s symptoms are not relieved, or accompanied by other symptoms, you should go to the hospital in time, to identify the cause and give targeted treatment. The above medication should be used under the guidance of a doctor, avoid self-medication.