Have you ever felt your waist sore and tingling while sitting? Have you had low back pain but feel relieved after massage or having a rest?
If you have above symptoms, it could be lumbar muscle strain!
What Is Lumbar Muscle Strain?
Lumbar muscle strain, also known as functional lower back pain, chronic lower back injury, lumbar gluteal muscle fasciitis, is actually chronic injury inflammation of lumbar muscle and its attachment point fascia or periosteum, which is one of the common causes of lower back pain.
This disease is mostly static injury and is one of the common clinical diseases. It is more common in young and middle-aged people, and its symptom is obstinate waist pain. The symptom can be worse in cloudy and rainy weathers or after excessive work, and the disease is often replated to occupation and working environment.
In addition to the local lesions of the waist itself, the factors that cause “lumbar muscle strain” can be summarized as follows:
1, Acute lumbar sprain without timely and appropriate treatment, thus forming chronic traumatic scar and adhesion, resulting in lumbar muscle strength weakening and pain.
2, Chronic accumulation of waist injury. Patients’ lumbar muscles being stretched for a long time because of their occupation or poor posture will result in chronic injury and lower back pain.
The main pathology of the disease is muscle fiber congestion, edema, and adhesion between muscle fibers or between muscles and fascia fibers, and inflammatory cell infiltration, which affects the normal sliding of the psoas muscle.
Among these pathogenic factors, local diseases (trauma, sprain, strain, degenerative disease, inflammation, etc.) and poor posture are the most common ones clinically.
What Are the Symptoms of Lumbar Muscle Strain?
1. Lumbar soreness or pain, tingling or burning in some parts.
2. Pain and soreness become severe when tired and relief after rest. Patients’ condition will be relieved after proper activity and frequent change of body position, but it will be worse after excessive activity.
3. Can’t insist on bending over to work.
4. There are tenderness points in the waist, mostly at the sacral spinal muscles, the posterior part of the iliac spine, the insertion points of the sacral spinal muscles, or the transverse process of the lumbar spine.
5. There was no abnormality in waist shape and movement, and no obvious psoas spasm.
How to Prevent Lumbar Muscle Strain?
1. Prevent damp and cold, do not sleep in wet places, add clothes timely. After sweating and rain, change wet clothes and dry your body in time after sweating and rain.
2. Treat acute lumbar sprain actively and make sure plenty of rest to prevent it from becoming chronic.
3. Be prepared for sports or strenuous activities.
4. Correct bad working posture, avoid bending over for too long.
5. Prevent overwork. Waist, as the center of human movement, will inevitably have injury and low back pain after overwork. Pay attention to work and leisure balance in all kinds of work or labor.
6. Use proper bed mattress. Sleep is an important part of people’s life, but an over soft mattress cannot help to maintain the normal physiological curvature of the spine.
7. Pay attention to weight loss and control. Obesity will inevitably bring extra burden to the waist, especially for people in middle age and women after childbirth. It is necessary to control diet and strengthen exercise.
8. Keep correct working posture. For example, when carrying heavy objects, bend your chest and waist forward slightly, bend your hips and knees slightly, take steady and small steps.
Post time: Feb-19-2021