The lumbar spine is an important part of the crestal spine, which bears the weight of the upper part of our body and coordinates the movement of the lower part of the body, and is second only to the cervical spine in flexibility. In daily life, we have to use the waist to push, pull, lift and other activities, if the action is slightly improper it is easy to make the lumbar spine injury, prone to low back pain, lower limb pain, knee pain, etc.. This shows how important it is to protect the waist.
But how to protect the waist in daily life? Here to share a simple 4 moves to improve lumbar pain –
These positions hurt the waist, which one are you?
Back pain, a large part of the reason is the wrong posture, whether standing, sitting or lying, the correct posture will reduce the strain on the waist, and vice versa will aggravate the strain.
1, “Gueyou lie” most hurt waist
Tired of a day back home, as a puddle of mud first “sitting” on the sofa!
The posture at this time is: leaning or half leaning on the sofa, head backward against the back of the sofa, buttocks moved backward, the body is trapped in the soft or softer sofa. Or watching TV, playing cell phones, reading books, too, always think that this position is the most comfortable, but the most comfortable is not necessarily the most healthy, the truth is that this position is the most most hurt waist!
The posture of the “Gueyou lie” will cause the lumbar spine pressure, no support force, is suspended or flexed state, the cervical spine forward flexion, the overall sinking, the body’s central axis followed by the backward shift. Sitting for a long time, the waist will feel obvious pain, fatigue, light lumbar muscle strain, heavy lumbar disc protrusion, crestal deformity.
2, sedentary ambulatory work
Many people, once in the office, most of the time to maintain a posture: hunched or hunched back, head down, staring at the computer …… a sitting is several hours, for a long time will feel lumbar pain. This group of people to white-collar office family, while some drivers are also prone to strokes.
The back pain is a chronic strain process, mainly due to long-term poor posture caused by sedentary ambulatory people. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine has “sedentary injury meat” said, sedentary upper body strength are pressed in the lumbar spine and surrounding muscles, ligaments, over time will feel lumbago, lumbago, easy lumbar muscle strain, leading to serious lumbar disc protrusion.
3, long standing long standing weight carrying
If it is a long time standing, or labor-intensive heavy labor, but also often waist problems, such as some shopping mall salesman or engaged in manual labor porters, a day down waist also tired not light, some do not pay attention to also lead to a serious lumbar disc protrusion.
The most obvious symptom is recurrent back pain, some people also have lower limb numbness, pain, and even more serious incontinence. However, lumbar disc herniation is one of the more common lumbar disorders in clinical practice, and is a common and frequent disease in orthopedic surgery. Most patients have a history of lumbar pain for weeks or months, or a history of recurrent lumbar pain episodes.
The degree of low back pain varies, and in severe cases it can affect turning and sitting. The pain may be aggravated by coughing, sneezing or straining during bowel movement. For longer duration of the disease, there is often a subjective numbness. It is mostly limited to the posterior lateral calf, dorsum of the foot, heel or palm of the foot.
The causes of lumbar disc herniation are both internal and external. The main internal cause is degenerative change of the lumbar spine; the external causes are trauma, strain or overwork, cold and moisture, etc. The normal intervertebral disc is elastic and tough, and has a strong resistance to pressure. However, as people age, the disc tissue is prone to degeneration, and it is generally believed that after the age of 20, the disc begins to degenerate, the water content of the nucleus pulposus gradually decreases, and the elasticity and load resistance of the disc also decreases. The incidence of lumbar disc herniation is highest in the middle age of 30-50 years old, and in recent years there is a trend of continuous rejuvenation. The incidence of herniated discs is generally high among long-term office workers, drivers, long-term bending workers, long-term weight-bearers and long-term standers.
What are the causes of low back pain? It can be summarized into four major categories.
1. caused by disorders of the crestal bone joint and its surrounding soft tissues, such as local injury, bleeding, edema and muscle spasm caused by contusions and sprains.
2, caused by the crestal medulla and crestal nerve disorders, such as crestal tumor, crestal myelitis, etc.
3. Caused by internal organ disorders, such as infection and tumor of the uterus and its adnexa.
4. Caused by mental factors, such as hysterical patients who may complain of low back problems but have no objective physical signs.
Is low back pain related to the weather?
In some patients, the symptoms of low back pain are as accurate as the weather forecast, and low back pain appears or worsens when the weather becomes cold. Cold is, indeed, a trigger for low back pain. The cold in the lower back constricts the blood vessels and causes ischemia. Patients tend to develop low back pain from staying in cold areas for long periods of time or sleeping on cold ground or in windy places.
So, which are the four major misconceptions that lumbar spine patients encounter in the treatment of their lumbar spine!
Misconception 1: Appeasement, get over and done with
Lumbar spondylosis is a common disease, multi-morbidity, many 20-50 years old high incidence of people think they are rich and strong, do not pay attention to their own body “small illnesses and disasters”, and do not put their own waist discomfort in the eye, not prevention, and not medical treatment. In fact, this time your waist has been unknowingly lesioned. Wait until it affects your work and life before you take a CT, do a checkup, and find a specialist, and by then it will be difficult to cure.
Myth 2: Take a lot of drugs and injections
At present, the vast majority of patients with lumbar disc herniation are treated with medication as the first choice. However, in terms of the pathogenesis of lumbar disc herniation, the nucleus pulposus cannot be released from the compression of the nerve root, and drug therapy is not a cure, but only a temporary relief of the patient’s pain. The result is a lifelong commitment, endless, stopping the drug will attack, but the drugs have varying degrees of toxic side effects, should not be taken for a long time.
Misconception three: move surgery, complete treatment
Surgery for lumbar disc herniation is not the first choice. Generally speaking, surgery is only required when conservative treatment is ineffective and the patient’s pain cannot be resolved, seriously affecting work and life. Moreover, surgery has strict indications and contraindications and many complications. The lumbar spine is a more active part of a person’s life, and after surgery, these parts will become relatively fragile and prone to degeneration more vulnerable to injury.
Myth 4: Once the pain, massage is good
Patients with lumbar disc herniation will have a history of pain for a certain period of time. Because the beginning of the disease is light, in the time of pain, many people are used to massage with the help of massage to soothe the pain. In fact, massage and massage can only provide relief, not cure the root cause. And because many people who do traction and massage lack sufficient knowledge of lumbar disc herniation, they often aggravate the condition and even cause accidents.
The doctor who chooses to implement traction and massage treatment should first have some knowledge of lumbar disc herniation, and at the same time have an understanding of the stage of disease onset. It is not true that the longer the massage time, the more significant the curative effect, but the massage technique, lightness and weight, etc., are also very important.
4 methods to protect the lumbar spine in daily life
1, massage lumbar eye
After rubbing the palms of your hands together to heat up, cross your hands waist, press the lumbar eye point, and then push down to the coccyx, and then push back up to the back, standing, standing can.
2, massage point in the commission
As the saying goes: “waist and back in the committee to seek”. Relaxed body, lying on the bed, with both hands thumb end press both sides of the point, the strength of a slight soreness is appropriate, a pressure a loose for a time, generally can be pressed about 20 times, while the flexion and extension of the legs with. The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than just a couple of hours of work.
3, pushing the calf method
The person with lumbar pain is sitting on a chair, using the root of the palm of his hand to push down the calf from above, slightly pressed, often pushing and pressing, can reduce the lumbar back pain.
The lumbar disc herniation is generally caused by the irregularity of meridians, stagnation of qi and blood, loss of nourishment of tendons and bones, and blood and qi, and moxibustion can play the purpose of warming and dispelling cold and unblocking meridians. The ancient method of manual moxibustion is an external treatment method in which the moxibustion practitioner holds a moxa stick and burns it on the acupuncture points on the body surface, using the gentle heat of the moxibustion fire and the effect of the medicine to warm the qi and blood, support the righteousness and dispel the evil through the conduction of the meridians, so as to achieve the purpose of treatment and health care. Therefore, it is more suitable for the treatment of lumbar disc herniation.
4.Rubbing the kidney point
The kidney point is located under the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra, 1.5 inches from the side, and is level with the vital gate point. Gently massage this point can alleviate lumbar pain, improve symptoms of low blood pressure, hypertension, kidney disease, etc., and play a health care treatment effect.
The specific method is as follows: two palms rubbing each other for a period of time, until hot, and then the palm firmly attached to the kidney point, so that 3 to 5 minutes in a row can be effective, or directly with their fingers gently kidney point, repeatedly do the same action, until the appearance of soreness and swelling, then the waist will have a slight feeling of heat. In addition, make a fist with both hands, put the tip of the fist on both sides of the kidney point, first clockwise pressure and then counterclockwise pressure and knead. The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than just a few of the most popular and popular points.
The moxibustion can not be rushed, moxibustion after the moxibustion sensation, such as hot, cold, soreness, numbness, string feeling, itching, will be blistered, there will be bumps, will be red rash, so that the meridians are gradually unblocked, the body has accepted the information of moxibustion, yuan qi is gradually recurring, slowly the effect will be better and better, adhere to the moxibustion will be completely recovered!
The hazards of herniated lumbar discs
1, first of all, lumbar disc herniation will lead to degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis.
2, secondly, lumbar disc herniation will lead to lumbar spine slippage. The relevant data show that in China, the incidence of lumbar spondylolisthesis accounts for about 4.7% to 5% of the total population. The age of onset is 20 to 50 years old more.
3, the third is the lumbar disc herniation may lead to the formation of lumbar spine bone superfluous. Generally speaking, the bone superfluous occurs in the adjacent edge of the degenerated disc, and the larger bone superfluous in the intervertebral foramen and the posterior longitudinal ligament may also compress the nerve roots and cause the phenomenon of lumbar disc herniation.
The fourth is that patients with lumbar disc herniation may experience a series of phenomena such as lumbar pain, a feeling of falling, and radiating pain in the lower limbs.
5, the fifth is that lumbar disc herniation can lead to the appearance of posterior joint degeneration and osteophytes. The lumbar disc herniation with a long history of low back pain is mostly combined with posterior joint degeneration and osteophytes.
Moxibustion can relieve the symptoms of lumbar disc prolapse by stimulating the warmth of acupuncture points, harmonizing qi and blood, and warming the meridians to achieve the goal of no pain.