What should I do if I sprain my waist? A few tips to help you recover

It is easy to sprain your waist if you are not careful during exercise. After a sprain, it will cause severe pain in the waist, affecting normal walking and lower limb activities. There are many ways to recover from a sprained waist. Massage therapy can be used to relieve the pain in the waist. At the same time, massage techniques can be used to relieve the symptoms of a sprained waist. You can also use plasters on the skin surface of the waist for treatment. After a sprained waist, try not to sleep on a bed that is too soft, as a soft bed is not conducive to recovery. You can sleep on a hard bed, and you can also use some blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs to achieve auxiliary effects. You can do some appropriate exercises to relieve the stiffness and pain in the waist.

Medical treatment

When you sprain your waist, you should go to the hospital for a check-up in time, take medicine regularly as instructed by the doctor, or go to a physical therapist for massage to help promote blood circulation in the waist and relieve pain symptoms. Long-term massage can effectively eliminate hidden dangers in the waist and is also good for your health.

Exercise Method

When you sprain your waist, try to avoid exercise. You should lie flat on the bed and rest more, or do appropriate rehabilitation training under the doctor's advice to ensure good blood circulation in your waist. If you are not used to lying in bed, you can sit in a chair with a backrest to do things. This can reduce the burden on your waist muscles and better support your body.

Rest therapy

When you sprain your waist, you must ensure adequate sleep and nutrition. You should usually eat a light diet, eat more vegetables and fruits, and drink some milk to help replenish the nutrients your body needs. Try to rest around 10 o'clock in the evening, and ensure at least 6 hours of rest to allow your body to get enough rest and replenish your energy.

Self-treatment

When you sprain your waist, if it is not too serious, you can take self-treatment methods. Lie face down on the bed and ask your family members to use the palms of their hands to rub and press on both sides of the spine from top to bottom, and massage down to the buttocks to the muscles under the thighs and the back of the calves. After massaging several times, press the most obvious pain point with your thumb, from light to heavy, until you feel soreness and swelling. Continue for 1-3 minutes, then slowly relax to relieve pressure. After pausing for a while, repeat this 5-7 times, and then pinch the painful area with the tip of your thumb.

"Lumbago" is an acute lumbago that often occurs in daily life. In pain science, it is called posterior ramus pain of lumbar spinal nerves. Some people also call it "non-specific lumbago", "facet joint syndrome", "lumbar muscle strain", etc. It often occurs in the elderly, workers with heavy workloads, farmers, sedentary office workers, etc., and can recur. During an attack, the lumbar sacral region is in severe pain, and the pain can spread to the thigh (not above the knee), which brings unspeakable pain to the patient, makes the patient inconvenient to move, and affects the patient's daily life. Pain specialists remind everyone that in the acute stage of pain, patients should pay attention to lying on a hard bed to rest, and apply a cold towel to the waist 1 to 2 days after the injury, and then use a hot towel to promote the absorption of hematoma.

At the same time, pay attention to keeping your waist warm, avoid getting cold, and do not do waist rotation activities. Physical therapy can also effectively improve lumbar stiffness, such as laser or super laser magnetic therapy. Magnetic therapy is a relatively safe and convenient physical therapy method. Don't make blind choices in daily life. It is recommended that patients pay more attention to some commonly used medical devices in China during daily home treatment. For example, low back pain treatment belts, low back pain fixation belts, etc. are all commonly used methods of multifunctional treatment in China.

When treating lumbar sprain with manipulation, one should first relax the muscles and tendons, and press relevant acupoints, such as Shenshu, Yangguan, and Weizhong. The manipulations mainly include connecting, pushing, rolling, and kneading. After the muscles are relaxed, have the patient lie on his side, shake the waist first, and then move and press sideways. After treatment, the patient will feel loose in the waist. The severity of the patient's injury should be assessed and Chinese medicine should be taken orally or applied externally. Generally, a sprained waist can be cured in one course of treatment.