Sitting for a long time and having back pain? One move can help you!

As an adult, who hasn’t experienced lower back pain?

My waist hurts when I want to stand up after sitting down, my waist hurts when I bend over to get something, and my waist hurts when I do housework...

Every minute you can feel the "pain" of Rong Mama poking her waist with a small needle, and the pain makes you grimace. Thousands of words can be reduced to just one sentence:

How can I save my old waist?

When encountering back pain, most people will think

“Do I have a herniated disc?”

There are many causes of low back pain, including:

Various acute and chronic injuries, lumbar soft tissue lesions, urinary system diseases, spondyloarthritis, lumbar infectious lesions...

Lumbar disc herniation is just one of them. If you want to figure out what’s wrong with you, the best way is to find a professional doctor to make a diagnosis.

The lumbar disc is located between the two lumbar vertebrae. The lumbar vertebrae are hard and have bad tempers, so the lumbar disc has to develop a smooth and versatile character.

The intervertebral disc acts like a "gasket" to cushion shock, maintain spinal height, and maintain spinal mobility.

Compared with the lumbar spine, the lumbar disc itself is relatively fragile. If the human body does not care about them, they will be crushed, rubbed, pulled and torn every day under high-load work. Who can bear it?

Self-examination:

Is it really a lumbar disc herniation?

👉Generally speaking, if low back pain occurs, it is not accompanied by obvious leg numbness or leg pain.

Most cases are lumbar sprains and lumbar muscle strains, but there are exceptions.

👉Relax fully while lying flat, and gradually lift off the bed while keeping your legs straight. If the angle is below 60 degrees, numbness and swelling in one leg will occur.

This means that you may have a lumbar disc herniation.

👉You can also try to stay in a resting position after experiencing lower back pain, and then cough suddenly to see if you feel a discharge in your lower limbs.

If so, it may be highly suspected that it is lumbar disc herniation.

What is the behavior

Caused lumbar disc herniation?

In most cases, lumbar disc herniation is caused by long-term bad habits and incorrect posture .

The incidence of lumbar disc herniation in people who work at a desk for a long time and long-distance bus drivers is as high as 10% to 30%.

Workers sit for 8 hours or even longer at work. When they get home, they just want to lie down. It can be said that "if you can sit, don't stand; if you can lie down, don't sit."

There are also professional mahjong players called "construction workers" who often sit around a square table and build the Great Wall.

No matter how comfortable it is to lie down, it is not comfortable to lie down all the time. To improve lumbar problems, you need to adjust these bad sitting postures in your daily life.

The correct sitting posture will prevent the lumbar and sacral muscles from becoming too tired. A chair with a backrest (with a waist support or a waist cushion) can bear part of the body's weight, keeping the waist and back relatively relaxed, reducing the chance of back strain.

Patients with low back pain should also try to avoid bending over to lift heavy objects to prevent lumbar sprains.

If you must carry the heavy object, squat down first when lifting it, then stand up after holding the heavy object tightly with both arms, move your legs to carry it to the designated location, and then squat down to put down the heavy object.

Lumbar disc herniation,

Is surgery the only option?

In fact, 90% of patients with lumbar disc herniation do not require surgical treatment, and only 10% of severe patients require surgery.

Lumbar disc herniation is a degenerative disease caused by the aging and degeneration of our intervertebral disc tissue, and no treatment can completely cure it.

Effective treatment can relieve pain and improve our quality of life.

The treatment principle should follow the step-by-step treatment principle of conservative-minimally invasive intervention-surgery. The specific treatment method needs to be comprehensively judged based on multiple factors such as the patient's symptoms, protrusion size, location, and whether there is concomitant bone structure stenosis.

Due to the complexity of the symptoms of lumbar disc herniation, the different degrees and directions of the herniation, and the different stages of the disease, different treatment measures are taken. Inappropriate treatment may aggravate muscle and nerve damage.