Can I swim if I have lumbar muscle strain?

Many people like to swim in the swimming pool or the beach, but many patients with lumbar muscle strain dare not go swimming for fear that their fragile waist will be hurt again. Lumbar muscle strain is a chronic injury to the muscles, ligaments and other tissues of the waist. It is a relatively common disease. Lumbar muscle strain will cause soreness in the muscles on both sides of the waist. So, can you swim if you have lumbar muscle strain?

The cause of lumbar muscle strain is related to working posture. The conditions and working posture should be changed according to the cause, such as sitting or standing for a long time, long-term participation in a certain sport, etc. This disease is a sterile inflammation, and general anti-inflammatory drugs have little effect. For treatment, you can choose a plaster made of pure Chinese medicine. It is safe for external use without side effects, can strengthen muscles and bones, enhance the function of joint ligaments, strengthen the elasticity and toughness of ligaments, eliminate inflammatory edema, improve the microcirculation and nutritional status of the affected part of the lumbar muscle vertebrae, and enhance the stability of the joints. Your symptoms can be completely eliminated and recovered.

The waist is the midpoint of the human body, and the lumbar-sacral joint is one of the important joints that bear the body's gravity. The movement of the joints involves the muscles, and the muscles here will become fatigued and injured. People who sit for long periods of time, do manual labor, stand for long periods of time, or repeatedly do bending work are prone to excessive tension in the waist muscles for a long time. Over time, they will suffer muscle strain or incorrect sitting posture will change the physiological curvature of the waist, causing damaging inflammation of the waist muscles and causing back pain. Swimming has the benefits of enhancing myocardial function, increasing resistance, losing weight, keeping fit, strengthening lung function, and protecting skin. Especially for people with bad waists, swimming is the first choice exercise program, because when people float in the water, the waist is almost not under any force, and no extra burden is added. The constantly fluctuating water flow can also massage and relax the waist. It is difficult to achieve this effect with other exercises.

Compared with various types of equipment training on land, swimming relaxes the whole body and can make muscle lines smooth; exercising in water reduces bone strain and joints are not easily damaged; the resistance of water can increase the intensity of exercise, and this intensity is gentler than general equipment training and is not easy to cause injury.

In terms of swimming style, people with lumbar muscle strain or joint disease are best to swim breaststroke, followed by backstroke, because these two swimming styles are not easy to strain muscles. The waist and spine can be fully stretched in line with the physiological curvature, the lumbar muscles can maintain a good degree of tension, and the constant fluctuations in the water can massage the lumbar muscles to a certain extent, which can relieve the pain in the waist caused by lumbar muscle strain. The butterfly stroke requires the back muscles to contract violently and twist the waist forcefully. If the range of motion is too large, it is easy to hurt the waist.

Patients should be careful when exercising. Do not exercise too much. When swimming, know when to stop and stop when you feel tired. Do not swim freestyle or butterfly stroke. Also, do warm-up exercises for the waist before swimming. If the water temperature is relatively low, do not swim. Do not dive from a high platform for the sake of excitement. Exercise under the guidance of a professional.