How to prevent muscle strain

The prevention of muscle strain is actually more about some methods and details in life. You should be careful to avoid sleeping in damp and cold places, and pay attention to proper exercise. You should not bend over for too long or work at a desk.

1. Prevent dampness and cold. 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. When the weather is cold, you can use an electric blanket or sleep on a heated kang.

2. Acute lumbar sprain should be treated actively and the patient should rest assured to prevent it from becoming a chronic condition.

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 the desk too low, etc.

5. Prevent overwork. People are like machines. Excessive operation or overload will inevitably lead to damage to certain parts or the entire machine. 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. Sleep is an important part of people’s lives. The suitability of the bed directly affects people's health. 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 losing weight and controlling your weight. Being too fat will inevitably bring extra burden to the waist, especially for middle-aged people and women after childbirth, which are periods when it is easy to gain weight. It is necessary to control your diet and increase exercise.

8. Labor: Incorrect working posture can easily cause lumbar muscle strain. Here are some correct working postures to help you prevent 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. Pay attention to maintaining a good posture at ordinary times. Don't stand or sit for a long time or maintain a fixed posture for a long time. Once you maintain a fixed posture for more than 20 minutes, your muscles will start to tense up. No matter what posture you maintain for too long, it is not good. Wrong posture will aggravate back pain. Do not overwork yourself by doing strenuous exercise. After recovering from lumbar muscle strain, excessive fatigue will cause recurrence, even for normal people.