There are many reasons for lumbar cramp-like pain, such as injury, strain, osteoporosis, ankylosing spondylitis, lumbar spine disease and so on.
1. Injury: mostly seen in sprains, strains, etc., when the waist is injured, the body will produce inflammatory factors, so that the muscle stiffness, cramp-like pain.
2. Strain injury: lumbar muscle strain caused by excessive exercise, long-term pressure on the waist, etc. Cold or improper bending posture can lead to cramp-like pain.
3. Osteoporosis: mostly caused by ageing, endocrine abnormality, impaired immunity, etc., manifested by cramp-like pain in the waist, and in serious cases, bone deformation and easy fracture will occur.
4. Ankylosing spondylitis: a rheumatic immune disease, inflammatory mediators stimulate the nerves to induce lumbar cramp-like pain, stiffness and sedentary and lying down when the symptoms are more pronounced.
5. Lumbar spine disease: common lumbar spine osteophytes, lumbar back fasciitis, etc., this kind of chronic disease is easy to trigger inflammation, stimulate the lumbar muscles cause cramps like pain.
Kidney stones, kidney tumors and other kidney diseases and cystitis, urinary tract infections and other urinary tract diseases, as well as herpes zoster and other diseases when the symptoms are severe may also spread the pain to the waist, resulting in cramp-like pain. Therefore, it is not possible to identify the cause of back pain alone, and it is recommended to go to the hospital for a complete examination to identify the cause.