What should I do if I have lumbar strain

The treatment of lumbar strain must of course be carried out scientifically, but you also need to understand which treatment method to choose. Current physical therapy methods include infrared irradiation, heat therapy, and acupuncture therapy, but acupuncture treatment should pay attention to the selection of acupoints.

1. Physical therapy

Physical therapy includes electrotherapy, infrared irradiation, heat therapy and other methods. All patients who have undergone physical therapy know that they will feel more comfortable during the therapy, and will return to their normal state after stopping it.

2. Muscle-regulating techniques

The patient lies prone, and the operator uses the palm of his hand to massage the sacrospinal muscles on both sides, then finds the tender points or painful nodules, and performs acupoint pressing, plucking, and pinching one by one from top to bottom, and then applies the rolling method. Be careful not to use too heavy a technique. You can also add the side-lying flexion and extension method, where the patient lies on his side with the affected side on top. The operator stands behind the patient, presses the painful area on his waist with one hand, holds the ankle of the affected side with the other hand and pulls it backward to hyperextend the hip joint, then flexes the hip and knees until the thigh touches the abdomen, and then stretches the lower limbs to straighten them. Repeat this three times.

3. Acupuncture

1. Acupuncture is performed on the Ashi points: Shenshu, Zhishi, Qihaishu, Mingmen, Yaoyangguan, Ciliao, Weizhong, etc. After acupuncture, cupping can be added to the waist points to disperse blood stasis, warm the meridians and relieve pain. Take once every other day, 10 times constitute a course of treatment. Patients with tuberculosis and tumors should not undergo acupuncture

2. Ear acupuncture is used in the lumbar sacral area, Shenmen area, kidney area, etc. The ears can be twisted slightly. Both ears are punctured at the same time. The needles are retained for 10 minutes. This can be done once every other day and can be repeated 2-3 times in a row.

4. Exercise therapy

Exercises for lumbar strain should strengthen the waist and back muscles to promote blood circulation and enhance the strength of the waist muscles. You can do forward and backward bends, left and right side bends, wind-swaying lotus leaves, supine leg raises, flying swallow skimming the water, etc. and can also combine it with radio gymnastics, Tai Chi, etc.

5. External treatment of traditional Chinese medicine

It only needs to be applied to the affected area on the waist. The drug can penetrate through the epidermis directly to the damaged tissue. No surgery is required. At the same time, it avoids the toxic side effects of oral drugs and is more effective in curing lumbar muscle strain.