Female left back pain

If female friends experience pain on the left side of their back, they can temporarily relieve the symptom through massage and acupressure, but this will not achieve a therapeutic effect. If you want to completely cure it, you should first treat it from the root and find the cause of your disease. Some patients become weak due to aging of their muscles, so they will gradually feel their strength deteriorating and cause some back pain.

The movement of the upper body is of course not only supported by the vertebrae and intervertebral discs, but the ligaments and muscles connecting the bones also play a big role. Among them, muscle stretching or contraction, in addition to being related to joint flexion and extension, also plays an important role in fixing the spine. The spine, which is composed of many bones connected to each other, can stand straight because of the tension of the muscles around it.

For example, the psoas major muscles on both sides of the spine, the quadriceps lumbar muscles on the inner side of the waist, the rectus abdominis muscles on the ventral side, the external oblique abdominal muscles, and the internal oblique abdominal muscles are all related to the stability and mobility of the spine.

However, as muscles age, their strength will weaken. Lack of exercise can also lead to decreased muscle strength. The degeneration of the muscles supporting the spine naturally becomes the cause of low back pain.

In order to stabilize the spine, the strength of the back muscles and abdominal muscles must be well balanced. However, due to the deterioration of abdominal muscle strength, this balance is destroyed, resulting in low back pain. This situation is very common.

However, although they are all called vertebrae, not all parts are the same size. The cervical vertebrae only need to support the weight of the head, so the vertebrae are thinner, while the lumbar vertebrae that bear the entire weight of the upper body are large and strong, and can fully bear the weight of the upper body. On the other hand, the fact that the lumbar spine has to bear heavy pressure also means that this part is prone to injury.

In fact, the areas most prone to low back pain are the 5th lumbar vertebra and sacrum at the bottom of the lumbar spine.

There are many causes of low back and leg pain, and the incidence rate varies among different groups of people.

1. Different ages: Children or adolescents mainly suffer from congenital malformations, postural diseases such as occult spina bifida, lumbar scoliosis; inflammatory diseases include lumbar tuberculosis, etc. The main causes of injuries in young and middle-aged people include lumbar muscle sprain, strain, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar compression fracture, etc. In addition, in terms of the immune system, there is ankylosing spondylosis and lumbar osteoarthritis, which is manifested by the formation of bone lips on the edges of the vertebral bodies and articular processes, lumbar disc narrowing and osteoporosis, followed by lumbar and sacral tumors.

2. Different genders: Men generally have greater waist movements during daily work and activities. Once the activity posture is improper, the load is too heavy, and there is a lack of protection, it may cause damage to the soft tissue, bones, and joints of the lumbar region. Therefore, low back and leg pain in men is more commonly caused by injury factors. Due to the anatomical and physiological characteristics of women, they may develop some unique diseases, such as uterine prolapse. These diseases can all cause low back pain. In addition, low back pain can occur during menstruation; during pregnancy, the load on the lumbar spine changes greatly and the bones and joints become loose, which can cause low back pain if improper force is used.