What to do if you have back pain

Female friends will experience symptoms of lower back pain during their menstrual period. At this time, we cannot use our hands to pound the waist. It is best to massage the waist with our hands. Pay attention to the strength and pay more attention to rest at this time to avoid dysmenorrhea caused by poor menstrual blood circulation. When we have our period, we can apply hot compresses to the Guanyuan and Hegu points to relieve the symptoms of lower back pain. You can learn about how to deal with lower back pain during menstruation.

What should girls do if they have back pain during menstruation?

1. Never beat your waist with your hands. Just use your hands to rub your waist from top to bottom. Don't use too much force. Just rub it gently. During this special period, girls are already weak, and beating them hard may cause them to be unable to bear it, and it is more likely to cause menstrual disorders.

2. The reason for back and waist pain is related to the poor discharge of menstrual blood. You can use a hot water bag to apply heat to your lower abdomen, which can prevent the lower abdomen from getting cold to a certain extent, promote blood circulation, and reduce the chance of back and abdominal pain.

3. Don’t slouch on the chair in a sloppy manner. Since you have back pain, use the small pillow, sit up straight, keep your head up and chest out. This upright posture can reduce the pain in your waist and abdomen.

4. Apply hot compress to Guanyuan acupoint. Put the other four fingers of your right hand except the thumb together, and then take the middle joint of the middle finger as the standard. The horizontal width is 3 inches. Use it as a reference to find the Guanyuan point four fingers below the navel. Add a few drops of lavender essential oil to hot water, then wet a towel, wring it out slightly, and use the hot towel to apply hot compress to the Guanyuan acupoint. After the temperature of the towel drops, wet it again, wring it out, and apply hot compress again. Repeat this hot compress for 10 minutes.

5. Press the Hegu point. If you put your index finger and thumb together, you can see a bulging muscle. The highest point of this bulging muscle is the Hegu point. Whenever you have time every day, use the thumb of one hand to press the Hegu point of the other hand. Press with a little force each time, hold for 5 seconds, release, and repeat. Repeat this process for 3 minutes.

What causes menstrual pain?

1. Abnormal position of the uterus: Low back pain is caused by anteversion, retroflexion, prolapse of the uterus, etc. There is no special treatment for this type of low back pain. Correcting uterine prolapse and changing body position can relieve the symptoms.

2. Pelvic tumors: Patients with uterine fibroids, cervical cancer, and ovarian cysts may experience low back pain due to tumor compression of nerves or cancer cells infiltrating the pelvic connective tissue. This type of patients often have widespread pain in the entire abdomen when they have low back pain, and drug treatment is often ineffective.

3. Internal injury factors: Too many births, frequent artificial abortions and excessive sexual intercourse can all cause kidney damage and lead to low back pain.

4. Lumbar muscle strain: Excessive physical fatigue, abnormal standing or sitting postures, and a too tight waistband can all lead to lumbar muscle strain and cause low back pain. Therefore, such patients should pay attention to the combination of work and rest, and move their waist frequently to stretch their waist muscles.

5. Pelvic inflammatory disease: Patients with chronic adnexitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and pelvic connective tissue inflammation may experience low back pain due to inflammation. As the primary disease improves or is cured, the symptoms of low back pain may gradually become lighter and disappear.

6. Relaxation of sacrospinal ligament: After pregnancy, the growth of the fetus may increase the support force of the waist, leading to relaxation of the sacrospinal ligament, compressing the pelvic nerves and blood vessels and causing low back pain. This type of low back pain will generally disappear gradually as the waist muscle strength recovers after delivery.