What to do if you have back pain after a cesarean delivery

We all know that there are two main ways of childbirth, one is natural childbirth, and the other is cesarean section. Especially for women who are giving birth to a second child, they are generally older. At this time, many of them will choose cesarean section to give birth. Cesarean section is a kind of surgery. After cesarean section, it is easy to cause back pain and numbness in the mother. At this time, the impact on the mother's health is relatively large, and timely adjustment is required. There are many reasons for cesarean section and spinal anesthesia and back pain. For example, during anesthesia, the muscles and ligaments of the back will be damaged, which will cause such back pain and may even last for a long time.

Is the back pain after cesarean section caused by anesthesia?

When women are pregnant, their abdomen protrudes and the lumbar curvature of many women will increase, that is, they will push their waist forward, which will cause the angle between the lumbar spine and the sacral spine to increase. When this angle exceeds the normal 40 degrees, the waist muscles and ligaments need to expend greater strength. Over time, it will cause chronic strain of the waist muscles and ligaments, and then produce pain.

In addition, anesthesia requires puncture in the waist, which can cause certain damage to the muscles and ligaments of the waist and back, causing postpartum back pain. Some patients may feel some local dull pain at the puncture site, but it is generally mild and usually only lasts for a few days as the tissue repairs.

Lower back pain that persists for weeks, months, or even years after childbirth is often unrelated to epidural anesthesia and labor analgesia. Therefore, anesthesia in the back is indeed one of the causes of low back pain after cesarean section, but it is not the main factor.

The main preventive measures for postpartum low back pain are as follows:

Measure 1: Massage and rehabilitation gymnastics to relieve postpartum back pain;

Measure 2: Avoid bending over frequently and standing or sitting for long periods of time after childbirth;

Measure 3: Reasonable calcium supplementation;

Measure 4: Pay attention to protecting your waist in daily life.

With the advancement of medicine, today's anesthesia technology has a more advanced "fine needle spinal anesthesia". Instead of using a thick needle (epidural needle) for guidance, a fine needle (spinal anesthesia needle) inside the spinal-epidural combined bag is used directly for puncture anesthesia. However, because the needle is extremely thin and soft, it is very difficult to operate and requires extremely high standards from the anesthesiologist, so many hospitals have not yet developed this technology.

Because this type of anesthesia is less invasive, there is almost no incidence of postoperative headaches. Moreover, because the fine needle causes minimal damage and very little damage to the muscles and ligaments of the lower back, it greatly reduces the low back pain caused by puncture and has been well received by patients and obstetricians.