About low back pain
Low back pain is a headache disease, and many people have experienced waist discomfort.
Not only middle-aged and elderly people, but also many young people are suffering from back pain.
Slight low back pain can be rested for a few days to weeks, but severe low back pain can lead to other complications.
Why do I have low back pain?
There are many causes of low back pain. Some low back pain is non-specific low back pain, that is, low back pain caused by no clear disease.
Among them, musculoskeletal pain is the main one. This kind of low back pain can usually resolve itself within a few weeks.
The other part is local problems in the waist, such as lumbar disc herniation, lumbar degenerative disease, lumbar spondylolisthesis, vertebral body fractures, spinal stenosis and cauda equina syndrome.
Also includes systemic diseases, such as spinal infections, ankylosing spondylitis, osteoporotic compression fractures, abdominal aortic aneurysms, renal/gastrointestinal/genitourinary diseases and tumors.
Common low back pain symptoms
Lumbar muscle strain:
People who sit for long periods of time are indeed prone to lumbar muscle strain. Low back pain caused by strain is mainly soreness in the lumbosacral region, which can be relieved by lying down. Lumbar muscle strain is also one of the most common clinical waist diseases.
Lumbar disc herniation:
Another common "lumbar disease" is lumbar disc herniation, which manifests as recurring low back pain, and then affects the lower limbs with linear radiating pain and numbness. feel.
This kind of "radiating pain" can spread all the way to the knees. Leg pain is not necessarily a joint problem, and lumbar spine problems should also be investigated.
Lumbar instability:
Low back pain may also be a problem with the lumbar spine structure, such as lower lumbar instability, which is the inability of the lower lumbar intervertebral joints to maintain normal load conditions Its physiological alignment relationship can cause loosening, instability, and even spondylolisthesis and a series of symptoms.
In the early stage, the symptoms are often soreness and swelling in the waist, the inability to bear weight, the feeling that "the waist is about to break", numbness and pain in the legs, etc. These discomforts can be significantly relieved after taking a rest.
When the instability of the lumbar spine develops to an advanced stage, you can even see that the bones in the waist clearly look like a "step" when taking off clothes.
Lumbar and back fasciitis:
People who sit for long periods of time can easily induce lumbar and back fasciitis. The resulting pain in the lower back is mostly manifested as particularly severe pain at night. In severe cases, it affects sleep.
Cold, moisture, and fatigue may induce lumbar myositis.
The main pathogenesis is that cold causes changes in blood circulation in the lower back, causing local inflammation; moisture can also cause high tension in the soft tissue of the lower back, gradually causing tiny tear-like injuries.
The metabolic dysfunction of some chronically injured skin can also cause capillary congestion, blood stasis, increased exudation, and the formation of fibrositis, which can lead to pain.
This kind of pain is mainly diffuse pain in the lower back and even the buttocks.
The above conditions of low back pain are relatively easy to identify, and some low back pain is caused by relatively hidden diseases.
For example, isthmic clefts in the spine and lumbar vertebrae, lumbosacral and coccygeal disc fissures, etc. These problems that are usually difficult to detect can easily cause pain after exercise, causing relatively localized pain, and the muscles in the painful area are obviously tense. , tenderness is also obvious. At this time, imaging examination can make a differential diagnosis with the aforementioned diseases.
Waist support
When walking, the waist and pelvis bear most of the weight first, and then transfer it to the feet. Quickly remember the following 4 waist protection elements:
1. Pay attention to your sitting and lying postures.
Read a book half-lying in bed, or leaning on the back of a chair.
Such a situation where the waist is suspended in the air is very detrimental to the lumbar spine.
Excessively tilting the backrest backward when driving is also very harmful to the lumbar spine.
2. Pay attention to the softness and hardness of the bed
Usually people think that the harder the bed for patients with back pain, the better. This is a misunderstanding.
It is best if the bed is moderately soft and hard. Generally speaking, the hardness of the bed should be such that when we press down hard with both hands, the pressing range is 3-5 cm.
3. Pay attention to exercise methods
When you have low back pain, it is wrong to do no exercise.
It can be carried out under the guidance of a doctor and the correct exercise method should be chosen. You cannot exercise blindly by yourself.
4. Orthopedic insoles
What are orthopedic insoles? To put it simply, it is a cushion placed in the shoe to correct and adjust the walking posture.
It is designed and developed by foot and ankle medical experts through research on plantar biomechanics and changes in human body's biological force lines caused by foot lesions.
It is suitable for the general population; for some people with foot deformities or foot diseases, professional testing, design, and production will be carried out to adapt to specific individuals.
Orthotic insoles can be worn during all rehabilitation activities involving the foot and lower leg.
· Correct and improve walking gait and posture by supporting the arch of the foot.
· Conservative treatment of some plantar diseases by redistributing plantar pressure.
Correction of bad walking postures such as varus, valgus, inside and outside feet; plantar pads, corns, tarsometatarsal arthritis, and intertarsal arthritis and other foot diseases.
It is safe and non-invasive. Patients with not only foot problems but also low back pain can choose and purchase with confidence.
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