What to do if your lower back hurts after lifting heavy objects

The waist is an important area that carries the strength of a person's upper body. If you maintain a posture for a long time or suddenly add burden to the waist, it is easy to get waist pain. Each type of back pain requires different treatments depending on the cause. Therefore, some people experience waist pain after lifting heavy objects. So how should a person treat waist pain caused by lifting heavy objects?

Low back pain caused by lifting heavy objects is basically caused by lumbar muscle strain. You need to pay attention to the following in your daily life:

1. Prevent dampness, cold and chill

Don't sleep in a damp place. Add clothes at any time according to climate changes. After sweating or raining, change wet clothes or dry your body in time.

2. Actively seek treatment and rest assured to prevent the disease from becoming chronic.

3. Do warm-up exercises before doing sports or strenuous activities.

4. Correct bad working posture

Such as bending over for too long, or leaning over a desk that is too low. Change your posture after sitting still for an hour. At the same time, you can use a cushion with a protrusion on the waist to relieve pressure on the waist, which helps to avoid lumbar muscle strain. When carrying heavy objects, bend your chest and waist slightly forward, bend your hips and knees slightly, take steady steps, and don't take large steps.

5. Prevent overwork

The waist is the center of human movement. If it is overworked, it will inevitably cause injury and low back pain. Therefore, pay attention to working and resting in all kinds of work or labor.

6. Use a hard cushioned bed

A mattress that is too soft cannot maintain the normal physiological curvature of the spine, so it is best to add a 10 cm thick cushion on the wooden board.

7. Pay attention to weight loss

Control your weight. Being too fat will inevitably bring extra burden to the waist, especially for middle-aged people and women after childbirth, as this is a period when it is easy to gain weight. Therefore, you should control your diet and increase exercise.

Additional information:

1. Lumbar muscle strain, also known as functional low back pain, chronic low back injury, lumbar gluteal muscle fasciitis, etc., is actually a chronic damaging inflammation of the lumbar muscles and the fascia or periosteum of their attachment points. It is one of the common causes of low back pain.

The main symptoms are distension and soreness in the waist or lumbosacral area, which recur repeatedly. The pain may vary with climate changes or degree of fatigue. For example, it may be aggravated by daytime fatigue and relieved after rest. It is a common and frequently occurring clinical disease with many causative factors. Over time, it can cause muscle fiber degeneration or even small tears, forming scars, fibrous cords or adhesions, leaving long-term chronic low back pain.

2. Treatment:

(1) Drug treatment: mainly anti-inflammatory analgesics, injected corticosteroids and oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, local muscle relaxants and analgesics.

(2) Blockade therapy: For those with fixed tender points, 0.5% to 1% procaine plus methylprednisolone acetate or hydrocortisone acetate can be used to block the tender points, with good results.

(3) Physical therapy: Under the guidance of a doctor, choosing appropriate physical therapy can also enhance the treatment effect. There are currently many physical therapy methods, including electromagnetic, ultrasonic, infrared, laser, etc., which act on the human body through sound, light, electricity, heat, etc. to play a role in relaxing muscles and activating blood circulation.

(4) Surgical treatment: Surgical treatment can be performed for cases that are ineffective with various non-surgical treatments.