Do you also often feel back pain? Do you think you have a lumbar strain? However, we often do not know or ignore the early symptoms of the disease, thus missing the best time for treatment.
What is lumbar strain?
”Lumbar strain is a group of diseases characterized by pain in the lower back, divided into acute and chronic. Soft tissues such as ligaments and muscles around the lumbar spine play an important role in maintaining body position and increasing spinal stability, balance and flexibility. If for some reason these ligaments, fascia, muscles, synovial membrane of lumbar spine and other soft tissues become diseased, then pain can occur, which is clinically referred to as soft tissue lumbago.
How to self-test?
1.Pain changes with the weather, and the pain increases on cool or rainy days.
2.It is often difficult to work with bending, and the pain increases after bending for a long time.
3.The range of low back pain is wide and the pain is indescribable, such as hidden pain, swelling pain, i-pain, and some of them are accompanied by heavy feeling.
4.The degree of lumbar pain is sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and it starts as intermittent pain and gradually becomes persistent pain and gradually increases.
5.The pain can be reduced after massage, and the pain can be reduced by pounding the waist with hands. It can be alleviated by appropriate activities and aggravated by excessive activities, and recurring.
6.The back pain is heavy when waking up in the morning, and improves after activity, and the symptoms are lighter in the daytime and aggravated at night, and some of them also affect sleep. The symptoms are lighter during the day and worse at night, and some of them affect sleep.
Clinical symptoms self-assessment?
1, chronic low back pain, from acute lumbar sprain to chronic injury or long-term chronic strain injury, low back pain symptoms are similar, but the medical history varies. The characteristics of low back pain are: low back pain when sitting, standing or bending for a long time, and low back pain is aggravated when bending down and lifting heavy objects with both hands. There is a history of recurrent attacks. The pain is at the starting and ending points of the lumbar back muscles such as unilateral or bilateral lumbar transverse process, and posterior sacrum, and there is pressure pain.
2. There is only slight pressure pain or no pressure pain at the site of lumbar muscle, and even the pain can be relieved when lightly hitting the lumbar back muscle.
3.Straight leg raise test and other neurological examination are not abnormal.
4. Restriction of lumbar movement, especially the limitation of forward flexion, is obvious.
It is necessary to do prevention?
1, avoid watching TV for a long time, in a smaller room, it is not advisable to put the TV set too high, sitting on a short stool to watch TV, the back of the waist back convexity, head and neck backward, is not good for the cervical spine and lumbar. Watching TV is best to sit on the sofa or reclining chair, waist also try to put a cushion pillow, top waist.
2, sleeping bed should choose a hard bed or put a hard Simmons and other flexible sleeper on a plank bed, sleeping position to double lower limbs slightly flexed position, side lying position is good.
3, pay attention to the correct posture of the waist at work; pay attention to rest, combined with work and rest, to prevent excessive fatigue; prevent the waist from trauma and cold and other adverse factors such as stimulation; appropriate physical exercise, especially to strengthen the waist muscle exercise. These measures can effectively prevent and slow down the lumbar muscles and intervertebral discs.
4, lumbar pain when the first thing to pay attention to change the lifestyle, not suitable to wear shoes with heel, the conditions can choose negative heel shoes. Daily life should sleep more on a hard bed, sleeping on a hard bed can reduce the pressure on the waist and reduce pain.
5, already have symptoms of lumbar pain, should reduce the workload, appropriate rest; lumbar pain symptoms are more serious, frequent attacks, should stop working, absolute rest, and it is best to rest in bed.
How to do with lumbar muscle strain?
1, lumbar muscle exercise to enhance the sacrospinous muscle-based lumbar muscle exercise is vital to the recovery of patients with chronic lumbar strain, which can not only compensate for the function of the diseased tissue by enhancing muscle strength, and can contribute to the early recovery of patients. There are many ways to exercise the lumbar muscles, but the “swallow pointing water” style is better, 3 times a day, 50 strokes each time, can be less at the beginning. (Flying swallow: lying on the bed, arms on both sides of the body, legs straight, then the head, upper limbs and lower limbs upward, do not make the elbow and knee flexion, always keep straight, such as flying swallow. Repeat the exercise 20 to 40 times.)
2, the waist pay attention to keep warm.
3, lumbar muscle exercise should be gradual, depending on the person.
4, avoid cold and damp, hot and humid invasion to improve the cold and damp living and working environment, do not sit and lie in the wet, do not brave the rain and wade in the water, wipe the body in time after sweating, change clothes, or drink ginger soup water to disperse the wind and cold.
5, pay attention to the labor of the waist force should be appropriate, not strong weight lifting, not to carry the weight for a long time, sitting, lying, walking to maintain the correct posture, if need to make the waist force or bending work, should be done regularly to relax the waist muscle gymnastics and wear lumbago fixed belt or lumbago treatment belt.
6. Pay attention to avoid falls, falls, flashes and contusions.