Introduction to methods to prevent low back pain

I believe everyone knows about the disease of low back pain, right? There must be many people around us who suffer from low back pain. As a common disease in hospital outpatient clinics and daily life, this disease is attracting more and more attention. But how much do we know about this disease? Is there any good prevention method? Let’s discuss it together.

The treatment of chronic low back pain must be an individualized plan, which generally includes the following aspects:

The first is to keep warm, rest and do functional exercises: once low back pain occurs, you can apply hot compresses after 24 hours to promote the disappearance of inflammation, relieve muscle spasms and improve pain conditions. Whether the patient needs to rest depends on the cause of the disease. Those who need absolute rest have acute disc herniation or compression fracture, those who need partial rest have osteoporosis and osteomalacia, and those who need as little rest as possible have ankylosing spondylitis. After the acute phase of severe low back pain, regardless of the cause, the patient needs to rest and rely on exercise to restore function after a recovery period. At this time, they should exercise as much as possible. In particular, we should strengthen the functional training of the abdomen and waist and back muscles, such as playing badminton, tennis or swimming. If the muscles of the whole trunk are strong, it can well protect the waist and back from injury, improve muscle blood circulation, promote metabolism, and achieve good treatment and prevention effects. Patients with lumbar injuries can also practice yoga, Tai Chi and other activities to enhance body flexibility and relieve lumbar muscle tension. Maintaining good posture is also very important to prevent back pain. When sitting, you should use a small pillow to support your waist. You can remove the small pillow for 5 minutes every half an hour, so that the position of your waist can be changed frequently. Don't sit or stand for a long time, let your waist muscles get effective rest.

The second is physical therapy and drug therapy, such as traction therapy, xenon light, low frequency, ultrasound therapy or traditional Chinese medicine acupoint therapy, which all play an important role in the treatment of low back pain. Many patients dare not or are unwilling to take certain drugs, such as non-steroidal drugs or wound medicines, as they believe they are very harmful. In fact, if symptomatic drugs can be taken reasonably during the acute phase, it can not only effectively improve symptoms but also shorten the course of the disease. Therefore, they should be actively treated.

The third is nerve block or minimally invasive interventional treatment. For patients with chronic low back pain caused by lumbar disc herniation, lumbar degeneration or spinal stenosis, paraspinal or epidural nerve block can effectively relieve pain. The combined use of glucocorticoids can reduce inflammation faster and achieve better results. Nerve block refers to a treatment method that injects anti-inflammatory, analgesic and nerve repair drugs around central and peripheral nerves to achieve pain treatment. In modern medicine, it is suitable for patients who are not effective with drugs and are not suitable for surgery. Nerve block for pain treatment can effectively eliminate inflammation, repair nerves, reduce muscle spasms, and relieve pain. It can be said to be a treatment method that treats both the symptoms and the root cause. Others, such as radiofrequency technology, are the most commonly used interventional pain treatment technology. It has been used to treat chronic low back pain for more than 40 years. With the improvement of technology, the tissue damage caused is getting smaller and smaller, and the safety is getting higher and higher. Ozone can promote the dissipation of inflammation, cause the nucleus pulposus to dehydrate and atrophy, and reduce pressure on nerve roots. It is also one of the safer treatment methods.

Through the introduction of the above article, I believe everyone has a general understanding of the methods to prevent low back pain? The methods in the article are all relatively detailed methods, so we can choose the appropriate method for treatment according to our needs.