What to do if lumbar spine is injured

The spine becomes fragile as the body ages, especially the lumbar spine. Due to long-term standing or maintaining a bad standing posture for a long time, the pressure on the lumbar spine increases, which may cause problems in the long run. If the lumbar spine condition is mild, it will only cause pain, but if it is not treated for a long time, it will seriously compress the nerves and cause numbness and soreness in the legs and even affect walking. This article introduces the problem of lumbar spine injury, let's take a look.

If you have just sprained your ankle, you should apply cold compress. If the sprain is within a few minutes or no more than ten minutes, immediately apply cold compress with an ice pack or a cool, wet towel. This can prevent local vasodilation, bleeding, and increased edema. It has the effect of reducing swelling and relieving pain. After half an hour, the cold compress will end and the next treatment method will begin.

While applying cold compress, you must rest, which can relieve the symptoms of lumbar spine injury. After a lumbar spine injury, you should stop exercising immediately to allow the injured muscles to rest to avoid further damage, leading to chronic lumbar muscle strain and lumbar disc herniation, etc. The main method of rest is to rest in bed, and you should sleep on a flat bed instead of a very thick mattress.

After you rest for half an hour, you should get a massage. You can do a simple massage at home, rub and massage the sprained waist with your palms, and gently beat it. Use your elbows to press the painful points for a few minutes. The painful points are to press the waist with your fingers. The most painful place is the painful point, which is called Ashi point in medicine.

After the massage, you can apply medicine for injuries and sprains. Commonly used ones include safflower oil, anti-edema and analgesic tincture, Yunnan Baiyao spray, etc.

You can also take some blood-activating and pain-relieving medicines, such as Dieda Pills, Panax Notoginseng Injury Tablets, etc. It is best to go to a medical institution to ask a doctor to prescribe the medicine, or you can buy some yourself at a pharmacy. It is best not to take antibiotics or anti-inflammatory drugs.

24 hours after the sprain, local treatment can be applied with hot compresses, massage, fire-sucking therapy, or a cloth wrapped with heated salt can be applied to the affected area, or the injured muscles of the waist and back can be evenly tapped with the fingertips, palm edges, or half-clenched fists. This helps to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.

For less serious lumbar muscle strains, the condition will be basically stable after the above treatment. At this time, hot compresses and physical therapy can be performed, or some blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs can be taken orally, or lumbar Babu patches can be used externally to accelerate the recovery of sprained muscles.