Symptoms of lumbar muscle strain: lumbar pain, lumbar instability and interlocking phenomenon, lumbar soreness and weakness, lumbar pain when bending, lumbar soreness and back pain, overproduction

1. Lumbar soreness or distension, part of the tingling or burning pain.

2. Aggravated by exertion and relieved by rest; relieved by appropriate activity and frequent changes in position, and aggravated by excessive activity.

3. Inability to insist on bending over for work, often forced to stretch the waist or hit the waist with a fist to relieve the pain.

4. There are pressure points in the lumbar region, mostly at the sacrospinous muscle, the posterior part of the iliac spine, the sacrospinous muscle after the sacrum stops or the transverse process of the lumbar vertebrae.

5. There is no abnormality in the shape and activity of the lumbar region, and there is no obvious spasm of the lumbar muscles, and a few patients have slightly limited lumbar activity.

Treatment of lumbar muscle strain:

One, drug treatment of lumbar muscle strain

Mainly anti-inflammatory painkillers, corticosteroid injections and oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, local topical use of Gushun, Shikitang, lumbar muscle, stickers, topical safety.

Two, gua sha treatment of lumbar muscle strain

To alcohol sterilization scraping parts and scraping tools, and then along the large vertebrae, Tianzhu → large Lyric a section, Tianzhu → Pudu a section to the anointing and Shentang. Matching points: life gate → waist yangguan a section, kidney yu → waist root, commission center scraping , and then scrape diaphragm yu, three yinjiao points.

Three, massage treatment of lumbar muscle strain

Patients with seated position , first with the left hand holding an empty fist , with the left fist in the left side of the waist from top to bottom. After 10 minutes of gentle percussion, and then use the left palm up and down massage or rubbing for about 5 minutes, twice a day. Then in turn with the right hand with the left hand movement method. They feel a burning sensation in the massage area, the effect is better, after the movement of self-conscious and comfortable.

Prevention of lumbar muscle strain:

1. Strengthen the lumbar back muscle exercise: especially some long-term sitting work, the lumbar back muscles are relatively weak, easy to injure, so there should be a purpose to strengthen the lumbar back muscle exercise, such as to do some forward stretching, leaning back, left and right side bending, lumbar rotating and other actions, so that the lumbar muscles are developed, ligament strong, obese should lose weight to reduce the burden on the lumbar region.

2. Life position: from a biomechanical point of view, in daily life, a variety of actions are correct and incorrect, such as reading, fetching and daily sitting posture, such as the use of bad position, not only increases the chance of lumbar muscle strain, and easy to make the disc pressure rises, increasing the incidence of low back pain. Do not stand for a long time or sit for a long time, stand for a long time can squat a squat, so that the lumbar muscles to relax. When extracting heavy objects from the ground, you should bend your knees and squat down to avoid bending over to increase the burden, and when you take heavy objects, your body should be as close as possible to the object and keep it close to your abdomen, and your legs should be slightly squatting.

3. Sports position: a variety of sports have the corresponding requirements, including the start of the large amount of exercise before the preparatory work, are to follow, especially in the game before and during the game, do not follow the requirements of the regulations. Daily exercise should also be so, such as running sports should first jogging, to be the body to adapt and then fast running.