Lower back pain can occur due to various reasons. It can appear after sleep, during menstruation, due to a psychological state or diseases of the kidneys and other internal organs. Let's take a closer look at why pain occurs, how to relieve lower back pain, how to distinguish it from kidney problems.
The relationship of pain with psychosomatics
Lower back pain is most often caused by drafts, heavy lifting, and falls. Some patients do not even realize that psychosomatics can provoke pain.
Often, psychosomatics is not even associated with the fact that it can cause pain in the lower back. The person assumes that the low air temperature in the street or a draft led to the fact that he caught a cold and began to ache in the lower back.
In people under 30 there is a close relationship between the two concepts: psychosomatics - pain.
Psychosomatics of the lumbar often says that discomfort in this part of the body appears due to stressful situations.
If you feel back pain, you can conclude that a person lacks support or understanding from loved ones. With the help of pain, the back wants to say that it is not able to carry on its own the too heavy burden that has been placed on it.
According to psychotherapists, there are departments on the back that are responsible for a certain psychological niche of a person.
Psychosomatics of the lower back manifests itself as follows:
- If a person wants to please others, but he fails to achieve his goal, the upper back may begin to hurt. It is necessary to treat such a problem by working on oneself, taking into account the opinion and attitude towards oneself only of close people. Don't take everyone else to heart.
- If a person lives in 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 family financial instability. Lack of money, debts, constant quarrels over banknotes cause the back to protest against money. Because of this, psychosomatics provokes the appearance of pain in the lower back.
It is necessary to treat back pain associated with psychosomatics as follows. Live for today. Let go of your fears that you won't have money tomorrow. The spine is the backbone of life. Therefore, if there is severe pain in any area 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 a change in hormonal levels. Sometimes the body temperature may even rise.
Why does pain occur?
Pain in the lower back during menstruation occurs due to the following factors:
- Great tension in the back, especially in the pelvic region.
- If the genitourinary system is inflamed and swollen.
- There are hormonal changes.
When the uterus tilts back, pressure is exerted on the nerve endings, which causes pain in the lower abdomen, lower back and sacrum. Drawing pain in the lower back may appear due to underdevelopment of the uterus.
Since the uterus undergoes contractions during menstruation, some women react strongly to this. Such symptoms are directly related to the hormonal background of a woman. The older a woman is, the more estrogen she has in her body. Because of this, heavy discharge can be observed during menstruation.
The causes of lower back pain during menstruation can be as follows:
- Violation of the level of progesterone.
- Before the period of menstruation, back pain occurs due to disturbed water balance. When excess fluid is not excreted from the body, tissues begin to swell.
- Disruptions in the endocrine system. It is necessary to consult a doctor if, in addition to lower back pain, nausea, vomiting, weight loss, sleep disturbance, body temperature rises.
Pain in the lower back during the onset of menstruation can also indicate a urinary tract infection, the development of endometriosis, infertility, ectopic pregnancy, menstrual irregularities. Intrauterine devices, as well as other types of contraception, can also provoke pain in the back in the lumbar region and sacrum.
What to do?
Painkillers can be taken for very painful periods. After consulting with the doctor, the drugs should be taken during the period of ovulation.
It is important that the gynecologist examines the patient, confirms that pain in the lower back does not occur due to problems with the female organs.
You can treat pain with the help of massage of active points. Such actions will improve the work of the endocrine system and hormonal metabolism. How to do massage, ask a specialist.
morning soreness
Sometimes there is pain in the lower back immediately after sleep. Some people encounter it very rarely and attribute it to sleeping in an uncomfortable position. Others suffer from back pain after sleep often, 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 to the side. If left untreated, the disease spreads throughout the spine, to the very lumbar.
- Pregnancy. After or during sleep, pain in the back occurs due to the increase in the weight of the expectant mother, as the baby is actively growing in utero.
After sleep, the lower back can hurt due to the fact that a person sleeps with legs fully extended, and during the day, too much stress on the muscles of the lower back. The wrong mattress can also cause morning discomfort.
To prevent pain in the lower back after sleep, it is important to choose the right mattress that will help you relax and rest your back at night.
If after sleep the lower back still began to hurt, go to the doctor and go through all the necessary studies. If the doctor finds back problems, he will prescribe the necessary treatment. If no problems are found, consider changing the mattress or sofa to get up after sleep in a cheerful and healthy person.
Learning to distinguish low back pain from kidney problems
Drawing pain in the lower back can sometimes indicate problems in the kidneys. How to make the correct diagnosis?
Soreness in the kidneys is defined as follows:
- In acute pain with blockage of the urinary tract or an increase in the kidney, renal colic is noted. If the pain is very severe, the person may even lose consciousness.
- If the kidneys do not have time to process the incoming fluid, swelling occurs under the eyes, on the legs. Sometimes pressure, temperature rises, itching of the skin appears.
- In case of malfunction of the kidneys, the patient complains of pulling pain in the lumbar region. Sometimes pain radiates to the buttock.
- If the kidneys are poisoned by alcohol, drugs or other harmful substances, pain in the lumbar region may also occur, extending to the buttock.
If the patient passes urine tests, an experienced doctor will see changes in the urine, in its quantity. To diagnose pain in the kidneys and lower back, you need to do an ultrasound.
Based on the study, the doctor will determine the cause of the pain and prescribe the treatment of the identified disease. Treatment is carried out with special drugs to relieve pain, swelling, inflammation and other unpleasant symptoms.
Pain when bending over
If you feel pain when bending forward in the lumbar region, go to the doctor, as this phenomenon can occur due to various reasons. Most often due to osteochondrosis. The doctor will conduct an examination, make a diagnosis, determine the causes of pain when bending forward, and also prescribe the necessary treatment.
Soreness in the lower back 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 keep your posture correctly so that the treatment is successful.
Pain therapy
Treatment of pain in the lower back is carried out by traditional methods (tablets, ointments, injections, patches), physiotherapy, as well as physiotherapy, massage, mud.
In addition to the main treatment, therapy is carried out at home using folk methods. At home, the following remedies are used to treat pain in the lumbar region:
- Run hot water into the bath. Add dry mustard (200 grams). After taking a bath for 15 minutes, rinse under the shower, dry yourself well and go to sleep in a warm bed.
- Mix honey with vinegar (one tablespoon each). Put the product on a cabbage leaf and bandage it to the affected area. Fix with a warm scarf, keep the compress for an hour.
- Heat four cups of sand in the oven. Pour it into a wool bag. Apply to the affected area overnight. At home, it is possible to warm the lower back if the pain is not associated with the kidneys, and also if the body temperature is normal.
Now you know why low back pain occurs, how to treat it at home, as well as in traditional ways.