How to sleep with lumbar pain

The lumbar spine is also a part of the human body, and many clinical diseases occur at the lumbar spine. When a person has lumbar pain, it will also affect people's work and life. It may even affect people's sleep, so people with lumbar pain should also pay attention to their sleeping posture, which may also affect the degree of pain. So how should you sleep if you have lumbar pain?

1. When patients with lumbar disc herniation sleep, they should use a quilt under their body with their knee and hip joints flexed 90 degrees respectively. This is a good relief posture. Alternatively, supine or side-lying sleeping positions are preferred because they can naturally straighten or slightly bend the limbs, relax the muscles of the whole body and make people feel comfortable. The main thing is to lie flat on a hard bed and rest.

2. Whether the sleeping posture is reasonable or not is closely related to low back pain. If the sleeping posture is unreasonable, it can not only induce lumbar disc herniation, but also easily cause cervical spondylosis. Because everyone has different sleeping habits formed since childhood, they have different sleeping postures. There are roughly three types of sleeping positions: supine, side-lying, and prone. When lying on your back, as long as the bed is comfortable and your limbs are kept naturally stretched, the muscles of the whole body can relax, the pressure in the lumbar intervertebral space can be significantly reduced, and the lumbar disc herniation can be alleviated. This is the best position for patients with lumbar disc herniation. When lying on your side, it is generally believed that lying on the right side is the best position because it will not compress the heart and will not affect gastrointestinal motility.

3. We believe that it is not necessary to pay attention to whether to lie on the left side or the right side, because people always turn over during sleep. Maintaining a sleeping posture for a long time will make some muscles relax while other muscles are relatively tense. In addition, the body is under pressure for a long time, and blood circulation is poor, and the nerves become numb due to lack of oxygen and blood. Therefore, turning over is the body's self-protection. When lying prone, the head and neck are often in an extreme twisted position to one side, which puts pressure on the chest. This can easily cause strain and degenerative changes in the neck muscles, ligaments, and joints. It can also easily cause increased lumbar lordosis, compressing the heart and lungs and affecting breathing, increasing the burden on the heart and lungs. Therefore, this sleeping position is generally not suitable. To sum up, the best sleeping positions are supine or side-lying, because they allow the limbs to naturally straighten or slightly bend, and the muscles of the whole body can relax easily, making people feel comfortable.