Many people encounter such a situation: they have lumbar spondylosis (here we mainly refer to the common lumbar strain and lumbar synostosis), after a period of treatment to reduce the symptoms or disappear, but after a period of time the symptoms appear again, some even more serious than once. Why is this? To answer this question that plagues many people, let’s talk about why we get lumbar spondylosis. In general, the main reason for lumbar strain injury is the long time in a certain posture, or lack of exercise, poor blood flow, resulting in damage to the surrounding muscles, fascia, ligaments, etc., and then the onset of symptoms such as muscle pain and swelling, limited activity. The formation of lumbar synostosis is caused by degenerative changes in the vertebral body or external factors that lead to rupture of the annulus fibrosus and protrusion of the nucleus pulposus, inducing numbness and pain in the lower extremities, weakness, limp walking and, in severe cases, incontinence of urine and feces. Back to the topic, why is lumbar spondylosis prone to recurrent attacks? We can be divided into several aspects to look at: 1, weather factors: the weather is hot and cold alternately, add clothing is not timely, cold invasion of the muscle coup, resulting in qi and blood stagnation, poor running, inducing the disease. As the saying goes, the pain does not work for the reason! 2, lack of exercise: many patients think that I now lumbar spondylosis well, can completely rest, doing housework, watching TV, playing cards and other activities have become the norm, this is the typical “good scars forget the pain”. 3, cumulative injury: injury can be divided into dynamic injury and static injury. Power injury is mainly sports or physical labor on the lumbar muscles and lumbar spine caused by external pressure injury, often the symptoms of this injury will be very sudden, and the symptoms will be very heavy, the course of the disease is relatively short. The static injury is mainly in a posture for a long time, the corresponding muscle groups do not get alternate rest, the formation of strain, but also do not get the right treatment, leaving sequelae, over time, the accumulation of strain into disease, it is easy to relapse. These are the common reasons that make it easy for lumbar spondylosis to recur! However, there are several misconceptions that we must clearly understand: 1, the greater the amount of exercise is better: many people think that my lumbar spine is not good, need to exercise, and the greater the amount the better, in fact, this will only increase the burden on the lumbar spine, counterproductive. We exercise to grasp a degree, is not feel tired or tired the next day after exercise, it can be; on the contrary, is the amount of exercise, need to reduce the amount. 2, the disappearance of symptoms is cured, do not need to treat: I believe this is the vast majority of patients think. Lumbar spondylosis is different from other skeletal diseases. Bone diseases are cured as long as they heal. The special thing about lumbar spondylosis is that it is the hub of human movement and the number one contributor to weight bearing. The muscles, ligaments, bones and intervertebral discs around it are involved in any subtle movement, so the lumbar spine is one of the most easily fatigued parts. Therefore, if you do not have a reasonable maintenance, exercise, and easy to adhere to the plan, I recommend that you once a week or once every two weeks for massage, acupuncture or physical therapy to maintain the vitality of the lumbar muscles. 3, tolerate if you can: due to various reasons such as work, family, can not take the time, a little bit of small pain will not be considered serious, do not need treatment, tolerate again and again, long-term delay without treatment, will lead to lumbar spine disease symptoms gradually aggravated, miss the best time for treatment. When you want to treat it again, it is time-consuming, laborious and costly, and the healing effect does not add up, easy to repeat. So when we feel uncomfortable, timely treatment to play a better treatment effect. 4, identified as a single treatment: patients suffering from lumbar spondylosis often only think that only manual massage can treat their disease, ignoring other treatment methods, such as physical therapy, acupuncture and other therapies. The main efficacy of manual therapy is to relax the tendons and activate the channels, move the qi and relieve pain, joint rectification, etc., while physiotherapy and acupuncture address deeper inflammation and allow faster absorption, so we advocate the combination of manual therapy and physiotherapy in treatment to achieve 1+1>2 to achieve a better treatment effect. By now, do you understand why lumbar spondylosis is easy to recur?