Pain on one side of the lumbar spine

The human waist is a relatively sensitive area, and is often prone to some disease symptoms, such as lumbar disc herniation, which is a very serious disease. Once it occurs, you must go to the hospital for timely treatment. If you cannot seek medical treatment in time, it can easily cause other serious diseases, so you need to pay special attention. What is lumbar muscle strain when I have pain on one side of my lumbar spine?

Chronic lumbar muscle strain is a common and frequently occurring clinical disease with many risk factors. The main symptom is low back pain, which is aggravated by daytime exertion and relieved after rest. Over time, it can cause muscle fiber degeneration and even small tears, forming scars or fiber cords or adhesions, leaving long-term chronic low back pain. The main treatment is non-surgical treatment. If various non-surgical treatments are ineffective, surgical treatment can be performed.

What causes lumbar muscle strain?

Long-term tension in the waist muscles can cause damaging inflammation. In addition, improper treatment of acute lumbar trauma may lead to chronic lumbar muscle strain.

What are the symptoms of lumbar muscle strain?

1. Soreness or distension in the waist, local tingling or burning pain.

2. It gets worse when you are tired and gets better when you rest; it gets better with proper exercise and frequent changes of body position, but gets worse with excessive activity.

3. Unable to persist in bending over while working. They are often forced to stretch their waist or hit their waist with fists from time to time to relieve the pain.

4. There are tender points in the lower back, mostly in the sacrospinal muscle, the posterior part of the iliac spine, the insertion point of the sacrospinal muscle behind the sacrum, or the transverse process of the lumbar vertebra.

5. There is usually no abnormality in the appearance and movement of the waist, and there is no obvious lumbar muscle spasm. A few patients have slightly restricted waist movement.

How to treat

1. Avoid overwork and correct bad posture.

2. Appropriate functional exercises, such as waist and back muscle exercises, can prevent muscle tension disorders.

3. Physical therapy, massage and other therapies to relax muscles and promote blood circulation.

4. Drug treatment: mainly anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs and traditional Chinese medicine for relaxing muscles and promoting blood circulation.

5. Block therapy: For those with fixed tender points, 0.5-1% procaine 5-10ml plus 0.5-1ml of prednisolone acetate or hydrocortisone acetate can be used to block the pain points, with good results.

6. Surgical treatment can be performed for cases that are ineffective with various non-surgical treatments.