What to do if you have back pain after childbirth

If you have lower back pain after childbirth, you must avoid excessive fatigue and focus on rest. At the same time, you must pay attention to care and health care in life, eat a healthy and scientific diet, and avoid eating cold foods and fruits. You can perform scientific massage on the area of ​​lower back pain to relieve pain.

1. Daily life: Avoid cold and dampness, and keep warm. Women with low back pain should pay attention to keeping warm, especially in the cold and damp seasons of winter and spring, and they need to keep their waists warm. Try to avoid getting wet in the rain and catching cold, sleeping in the wind at night, etc. Avoid lying in damp places for a long time. In cold and damp seasons, you can use an electric heating mattress to dispel the cold and keep warm. Regular waist movements can stretch the waist muscles and promote blood circulation in local muscles. Therefore, for patients who sit or stand for long periods of time at work, they should exercise their waist appropriately from time to time to relieve tension in the waist muscles and relieve pain. For example, you can walk a little indoors, do some exercises to move your waist, etc. Pay attention to sexual hygiene. When low back pain is significantly aggravated, sexual intercourse should be avoided. During the remission period, the frequency of sexual intercourse should also be appropriately adjusted. Pay attention to menstrual hygiene, keep the vulva clean, avoid urinary and reproductive system infections, and reduce factors that aggravate low back pain.

2. Diet adjustment: The diet of people with low back pain is generally not much different from that of normal people. But be careful to avoid eating too much raw, cold and damp food, and even in summer, it is not advisable to drink too many frozen drinks. It is not advisable to eat too much cold and slippery fruits at one time, such as watermelon. For chronic low back pain that persists, you can take some Chinese patent medicines that strengthen the kidneys and waist regularly, such as Liuwei Dihuang Pills, Shenqi Pills, Shiquan Dabu Pills, etc. You can choose the right one according to your physical condition and condition.

3. Rehabilitation therapy: massage,

(1) Press the lumbar sacral area with your palms: Lie prone and press your palms together on the painful lumbar vertebrae until no pain is caused. One inhalation and one exhalation counts as one time. Do this 10 to 15 times.

(2) Massage the waist and back: After work, in the morning or before going to bed at night, you can use your palms to rub the waist and back muscles, rubbing up and down 50 to 100 times, while twisting your waist. This can relax the muscles and promote blood circulation, improve local blood circulation, and relieve low back pain.

(3) Massage the muscle knots: Use the tip of your thumb to carefully touch the waist and sacrum. If you find any tender lumps, press them with your fingertips. Massage each knot for 1 minute.

(4) Pushing the lower limbs: With the help of others, lie prone, fix the hips, and use the base of the palm to push from the sacrum, through the buttocks, along the outer side of the thigh and calf, to the other side of the limb.