Lower back pain can occur for a variety of reasons. It can occur after sleep, during menstruation, due to a mental condition or diseases of the kidneys and other internal organs. Let's take a closer look at why pain occurs, how to alleviate lower back pain, how to distinguish it from kidney problems.
Relationship between pain and psychosomatics
Lower back pain is most often caused by shortness of breath, lifting heavy loads and falls. Some patients do not even realize that psychosomatics can cause pain.
Often psychosomatics is not even related to the fact that it can cause lower back pain. The person assumes that low street air temperature or drafts led to a cold and started to ache in the lower back.
In people under the age of 30, there is a close connection between two concepts: psychosomatics - pain.
Psychosomatics of the lumbar region often says that discomfort in this part of the body occurs due to stressful situations.
If you feel back pain, you may conclude that a person lacks the support or understanding of those closest to them. With the help of back pain, he wants to say that he is not able to carry the heavy burden that was placed on him.
According to psychotherapists, there are departments on the back that are responsible for a particular psychological niche of a person.
Lower back psychosomatics manifests itself as follows:
- If a person wants to please others but fails to achieve his goal, the upper back may begin to ache. Such a problem needs to be treated by working on yourself, taking into account the opinion and attitude towards yourself only of close people. Don’t take everyone else to heart.
- If a man lives with memories, his middle back hurts. For example, after a divorce a woman or a man cannot forget their soul mate, they think about the past, about everything that once happened.
- Lower back pain due to financial instability of the family. Lack of money, debts, constant quarrels over banknotes provoke a protest in the back against money. Therefore, psychosomatics causes pain in the lower back.
It is necessary to treat back pain associated with psychosomatics as follows. Live for today. Get rid of fears that you will not have money tomorrow. The spine is the backbone of life. Therefore, if there is severe pain in any part of the back, analyze your life, your thinking, think about what you are missing in life.
Pain and menstruation
70 percent of women suffer from pain during menstruation. Such symptoms are considered natural during this period due to changes in hormone levels. Sometimes the body temperature can even rise.
Why does pain occur?
Lower back pain during menstruation is caused by the following factors:
- Great tension in the back, especially in the pelvic area.
- If the genitourinary system is inflamed and swollen.
- Hormonal changes occur.
When the uterus tilts back, pressure is applied to the nerve endings, causing pain in the lower abdomen, lower back and sacrum. Lower back pain can occur due to underdevelopment of the uterus.
Because the uterus shrinks during menstruation, some women react strongly to it. Such symptoms are directly related to a woman's hormonal background. The older a woman is, the more estrogen she has in her body. Therefore, abundant discharge may be noticed during menstruation.
The causes of lower back pain during menstruation can be the following:
- Violation of progesterone levels.
- Before menstruation, back pain occurs due to disturbed water balance. When excess fluid is not excreted from the body, the tissues begin to swell.
- Endocrine disorders. It is necessary to consult a doctor if, in addition to pain in the lower back, nausea, vomiting, weight loss, sleep disturbance, increase in body temperature occur.
Lower back pain at the beginning of menstruation may also indicate urinary tract infection, development of endometriosis, infertility, ectopic pregnancy, menstrual irregularities. Intrauterine devices, as well as other types of contraception, can also cause back pain in the lumbar region and sacrum.
what to do?
Painkillers can be taken during very painful periods. After consulting a doctor, medication should be taken during the ovulation period.
It is important that the gynecologist examines the patient, confirms that the pain in the lower back does not occur due to problems with female organs.
You can treat the pain with the help of active point massage. Such actions will improve the work of the endocrine system and hormonal metabolism. Ask an expert how to do a massage.
morning pain
Sometimes lower back pain occurs immediately after sleep. Some people meet him very rarely and attribute this to the fact that they slept in an uncomfortable position. Others often suffer from back pain after sleeping, so they look for the causes of such a problem and think about what treatment should be taken.
Causes of back pain after sleep:
- Osteochondrosis of the thoracic or cervical spine. In addition to back pain, a person complains of increased fatigue, increased pain when leaning forward, backward, or sideways. If left untreated, the disease spreads throughout the spine, to the lumbar region.
- Pregnancy. After or during sleep, back pain occurs due to the increase in the weight of the future mother, because the baby is actively growing in the womb.
The lower back can be sore after sleeping due to the fact that the person sleeps with fully extended legs, and during the day it puts too much strain on the muscles of the lower back. The wrong mattress can also cause morning discomfort.
To prevent lower back pain after sleeping, it is important to choose the right mattress to help you relax and rest your back at night.
If after sleeping the lower back still starts to hurt, go to the doctor and go through all the necessary studies. If the doctor determines back problems, he will prescribe the necessary treatment. If no problems are detected, consider changing the mattress or sofa to get up in a happy and healthy person after sleeping.
Learn to distinguish lower back pain from kidney problems
Lower back pain can sometimes indicate kidney problems. How to make a correct diagnosis?
Kidney pain is defined as follows:
- In acute pain with obstruction of the urinary tract or enlargement of the kidneys, renal colic is observed. If the pain is very strong, the person may even lose consciousness.
- If the kidneys do not have time to process the fluid that comes, there is swelling under the eyes, on the legs. Sometimes the pressure and temperature increase, and itchy skin appears.
- In case of kidney problems, the patient complains of traction in the lumbar region. Sometimes the pain radiates to the buttocks.
- If the kidneys are poisoned by alcohol, drugs or other harmful substances, pain in the lumbar region, which extends to the buttocks, can also occur.
If the patient passes urine tests, an experienced doctor will notice changes in the urine, in its quantity. An ultrasound is needed to diagnose pain in the kidneys and lower back.
Based on the study, the doctor will determine the cause of the pain and prescribe treatment for the identified disease. Treatment is carried out with special drugs to relieve pain, swelling, inflammation and other unpleasant symptoms.
Bending pain
If you feel pain when bending forward in the lumbar region, go to the doctor, because this phenomenon can occur for various reasons. Mostly due to osteochondrosis. The doctor will perform an examination, make a diagnosis, determine the causes of the pain when bending forward, and will also prescribe the necessary treatment.
Lower back pain when bending forward is treated with manual therapy. Treatment is carried out with the help of physiotherapy exercises, acupuncture. It is important to learn how to hold your posture properly in order for the treatment to be successful.
Pain therapy
Treatment of lower back pain is carried out by traditional methods (tablets, ointments, injections, patches), physiotherapy, as well as physiotherapy, massage, mud.
In addition to the main treatment, the therapy is carried out at home using folk methods. At home, the following medications are used to treat lumbar pain:
- Let the hot water in the tub. Add dry mustard (200 grams). After bathing for 15 minutes, rinse in the shower, dry well and go to bed in a warm bed.
- Mix honey with vinegar (one tablespoon). Put the product on a cabbage leaf and wrap it around the affected area. Fix with a warm scarf, hold the compress for an hour.
- Heat four cups of sand in the oven. Pour into a woolen bag. Apply to the affected area overnight. At home, it is possible to warm the lower back if the pain is not related to the kidneys, and also if the body temperature is normal.
Now you know why low back pain occurs, how it is treated at home, as well as in traditional ways.