How to relieve pain from a back injury

Lumbar injury should be treated according to the specific degree of the patient to relieve pain, mild injury is mainly to rest and recuperate mainly, local hot and cold compresses, drug therapy. If the injury is serious, but also need to take surgical treatment, the specific need to follow the doctor’s instructions. 1. Rest and recuperation: after the lumbar injury, avoid activities, bed rest, in order to reduce the pull on the surrounding tissues, to prevent pain aggravation. 2. Hot and cold compresses: within 72 hours of the lumbar injury, in the acute stage, can be intermittent ice packs, help to reduce oozing, vasoconstriction, on the relief of pain to a certain extent to help, more than 72 hours, can be hot water bags or hot towels hot compresses, improve blood circulation, reduce pain. 3. Medication: If the pain after the lumbar injury is more intense, you can take diclofenac sodium enteric-coated tablets, meloxicam tablets and other non-steroidal painkillers for adjuvant treatment, but also oral Yunnan Baiyao capsule, shuji vivify blood tablets and other medications, the relief of pain is helpful to a certain extent. 4. Surgery: If the lumbar injury is serious, lumbar spondylolisthesis or serious lumbar compression fracture occurs, the pain is difficult to be relieved simply through conservative treatment, and it may affect the lumbar function, so it needs to be treated by surgical reset and internal fixation. After the lumbar injury, it is necessary to consult the doctor in time and standardize the treatment under the doctor’s guidance to avoid delaying the condition. The use of drugs need to follow the doctor’s instructions.