What are the causes of low back pain?

1. Spinal disorders

Spinal disorders such as lesions in the bones and joints of the spine and surrounding soft tissues can cause low back pain, including spinal neuropathy and soft tissue inflammation, as well as degenerative lesions of the bones and joints. The incidence of lumbar disc herniation is the highest. The sciatic nerve is compressed by the disc, which causes low back pain, so much so that the pain radiates to the back of the thighs and calves, and in severe cases it can also involve the cortex.

2. Digestive system disorders

Low back pain is also commonly associated with digestive system diseases, such as acute gastric or duodenal ulcers, duodenal perforation, and acute cholecystitis or pancreatitis, which can lead to acute low back pain. If chronic low back pain is present, then pancreatic cancer is a concern.

3. Poor posture

Low back pain at a young age is usually caused by poor posture. Sitting still for a long time, wrong sitting posture, hunching over while sitting, sitting in Beijing paralysis, sitting on a soft sofa, etc. can cause scoliosis or lumbar muscle strain, thus causing low back pain.

4. Osteoporosis

When you get older, bone production slows down and you lose a lot of bone mass, so if you don't focus on calcium and vitamin D, and if you don't have enough oestrogen, you will easily develop osteoporosis, and back pain will be the first symptom. The pain increases when sitting or standing for long periods of time and decreases when lying down, and it is impossible to specify which piece of pain is present.

5. Precursors of heart disease

Investigation shows that many cardiac arrest victims have symptoms of low back pain some time before the onset of the disease.

6、Genitourinary system diseases

Low back pain, accompanied by a sense of soreness and swelling and a feeling of falling, weakness of the muscles of the low back, and the strongest pain when turning over, is most likely to be a genitourinary disease, commonly urinary stones or pelvic inflammatory disease, or possibly uterine fibroids or nephritis.

What movements can relieve low back pain?

1. Little Swallow Fly

First lie on a hard bed, two arms straight, respectively on the side of the body, then let the head, shoulders and arms to the maximum extent possible to lift back up, while the two legs straight and raised upwards, the action is like a small swallow flying general, maintain a few seconds and then relax.

2. Deep squats against the wall

Back against the wall, waist and back straight, and then slowly squat, the heel can not leave the ground, has been to let the thighs and calves show vertical state, maintain 5 seconds to resume the standing position.

Warm Tips

After understanding the above, the cause of low back pain is not unique and therefore painkillers should not be taken at will to avoid masking the condition. If necessary, you should go to hospital for a comprehensive examination and targeted treatment. You should control the amount of time you spend sitting and standing, not bending over for long periods of time, and move around every 20-30 minutes.