Lumbar muscle strain is very harmful to patients. It will have some impact on work and life, so if you suffer from lumbar muscle strain, you must get timely treatment. Don't delay the illness and have more serious consequences. So what are the treatments for lumbar muscle strain? What are the factors that cause lumbar muscle strain? Let’s take a look and find out.
1. Treatment methods for lumbar muscle strain
1. Exercise therapy for lumbar muscle strain
(1) Lumbar forward flexion and extension exercises
Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, hands on your hips, in a ready position. Then fully bend the waist forward and extend backward four times each. Try to relax the waist muscles during exercise.
(2) Waist rotation movement
The posture is the same as before. Rotate the waist once in clockwise direction and once in counterclockwise direction, then from slow to fast, from large to small, alternately rotate clockwise and counterclockwise eight times each.
(3) "Arch Bridge Pose"
Lie on your back on the bed, bend your legs, and use your feet, elbows and back of your head as the fulcrum (five-point support) to lift your buttocks hard , like an arch bridge, as the exercise progresses, you can put your arms on your chest and practice with only your feet and the back of your head as the fulcrum. Repeat the exercise 20 to 40 times.
(4) "Flying Swallow Pose"
Lie prone on the bed, place your arms on both sides of your body, straighten your legs, and then lift your head, upper limbs and lower limbs upwards. Do not bend your elbows and knees, but always keep them straight, like a flying swallow. Repeat the exercise 20 to 40 times.
2. Massage therapy for lumbar muscle strain
(1) After rubbing your hands together to heat them up, place them overlapping in the middle of the lumbar spine, push and rub from top to bottom 30-50 times, until until local heat is felt.
(2) Sit with your feet stretched forward, your knees bent, or you can sit upright. Knead, lift and release the waist muscles with both hands respectively 15-20 times.
(3) Knead in a sitting position. Put the five fingers of both hands together, place them on the left and right sides of the lower back, and rub the palms up and down slowly until it becomes warm.
(4) Make fists with both hands, roll up and down from the waist, and massage. First from the bottom up, then from the top down, and repeat many times. The upper body can be tilted forward and backward.
(5) Put your hands on your hips, press your thumbs on the waist and eyes on both sides, squeeze hard, and rotate and massage, first clockwise, then counterclockwise, 36 times each.
(6) Use both hands to make half-clenched fists, and tap the lumbosacral area lightly with the backs of both fists to an extent that does not cause pain. Do it on the left and right sides at the same time, tapping 30 times each.
(7) Grasp your hands with your hands on your hips, with your thumb in front, press on the waist side without moving, and use the other four fingers to rub the skin outward from both sides of the lumbar spine, starting from the waist and eyes to the sacrum. Catch 36 times on each side.
(8) Shake your hands and place them on your waist, press the heel of your palms on your waist and eyes, and shake them up and down quickly 15-20 times.
(9) Take a sitting position and rub the Renzhong point with the tip of your middle finger for 1-2 minutes.
(10) Sit down and use the tips of your middle fingers to press the Weizhong points on both legs (in the middle of the posterior fossa of the knee joint) for 1-2 minutes. There should be soreness, numbness, and swelling in the pressed area. feeling.
The above method of treating lumbar muscle strain should be done once in the morning and once in the evening. It can nourish the liver and kidneys, loosen muscles and bones, unblock meridians and relieve pain. It can also enhance the body's immune function and treat lumbar muscle strain. It has good control effect.
In addition to local lesions in the waist itself, what are the factors that cause lumbar muscle strain? Let’s take a look.
2. Factors causing lumbar muscle strain
1. Acute lumbar sprain without timely and reasonable treatment will form chronic traumatic scars and adhesions, weaken the lumbar muscle strength and cause pain. .
2. Chronic cumulative damage to the waist. Occupational reasons require you to bend over for a long time, or due to poor posture, the lumbar muscles are stretched for a long time. Over time, chronic damage to the lumbar muscles will occur, leading to low back pain.
3. Regardless of chronic cumulative injury or chronic low back pain left over from acute injury, the main pathology is muscle fiber congestion, edema, adhesions and inflammatory cell infiltration between muscle fibers or between muscle and fascia fibers, causing The normal sliding of the psoas muscle is affected.
When the waist is moved, especially when the waist is bent forward, the damaged psoas muscles are stretched and stimulated, causing low back pain symptoms through nerve reflexes.
Among these pathogenic factors, the most common ones in clinical practice are local diseases (trauma, sprains, strains, degenerative lesions, inflammation, etc.) and poor posture, which are common problems encountered in orthopedics and rehabilitation clinics. One of the most common diseases.
If you suffer from lumbar muscle strain, you must treat it in time to avoid aggravating the condition.
3. Check for lumbar muscle strain
1. Physical examination
The main symptom of lumbar muscle strain is pain, and there will be obvious tenderness in the strained area, so the doctor can Determine whether there is lumbar muscle strain through physical examination.
The range of tenderness in the lower back is relatively wide, and the tender points are mostly on the back of the sacroiliac joint, the back of the sacrum and the transverse process of the lumbar vertebrae. In mild cases, the tenderness is mostly inconspicuous; in severe cases, tenderness may be accompanied by spasm and stiffness of one or both sides of the sacrospinalis muscles.
2. Erythrocyte sedimentation test
Put the anticoagulated blood into the erythrocyte sedimentation tube and let it stand vertically. The red blood cells will sink due to their high density. The sedimentation speed of red blood cells is usually expressed as the distance that red blood cells sink at the end of the first hour, which is called the erythrocyte sedimentation rate, or erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
The examination of erythrocyte sedimentation rate has certain clinical significance in observing lumbar muscle strain and whether there is rheumatic joint disease.
3. Anti-O test
Anti-streptolysin O, or anti-streptolysin O, is an antibody that appears in the serum after the human body is infected with group A hemolytic streptococci. 80% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis have elevated levels of anti-chain O, often above 1:800. After recovery, this antibody can gradually decrease.
Therefore, anti-O examination is mainly used to observe whether patients with lumbar muscle strain have the possibility of rheumatoid arthritis.
4. X-ray examination
X-ray examination is mainly used to detect bone hyperplasia in patients with lumbar muscle strain. Therefore, Patients with deformity and vertebral bone hyperplasia.