Why is driving easy to hurt? Chinese medicine teaches you to cope

Family doctor online December 04, 2017

Long driving can lead to health risks, such as lumbago, hemorrhoids, and so on. What about the pain in the back? Let's get to the bottom of this:

What can cause waist pain?

Lumbar pain refers to a disease that causes pain in the lumbar spine or side of the ridge to be caused by external sensation, internal injury or sudden drop, which results in poor lumbar blood circulation or loss of support.

Low back pain is a kind of condition, internal injuries is inadequate natural endowment, and labor load, or long become empty, or elderly, or sex is not section, so that the essence of kidney deficiency, lumbar abdomen alongwith, and low back pain. However, kidney empty lumbago is divided into kidney Yin and kidney Yang deficiency, kidney Yin deficiency lumbago main performance is: the waist ache steadily, weakness weakness, touching not more, less upset mei, dry mouth, dry throat, flush on face, limbs, red tongue less moss, pulse count. And kidney Yang deficiency and Yin deficiency lumbago lumbago main difference is the waist local cooling, xi WenXi press, in law, lie the ease, often break out repeatedly, arrested, lower abdomen was 晄 white, cold and cold limbs, pale tongue coating, pulse heavy fine.

How to cope with the driving pain?

1. Correct sitting position

In the car, the driver often relaxes himself and puts his entire body in a chair, making the spine C. This bad posture can overstretch the ligament in the back and compress the nerves in the nearby spine, causing back pain. Try to move your hips back, keeping your spine firmly on your hips, your lower back straight, and your habit of making it natural. Or sit in a chair with a 3 inch cushion on your lower back.

2. Hot compress waist yangguan

People who drive long distances often develop symptoms of backache, which can be caused by a long period of holding a position or a tilt in the back of the chair. The use of traditional Chinese medicine massage can alleviate this kind of discomfort, such as massage waist yangguan hole.

As the name suggests, the waist is located at the waist, and at the lower back of the median line of the middle line 4 lumbar spine, is the common acupuncture point for the treatment of lumbar diseases. You can lie on your bed and warm up your waist with hot towels for 20 to 30 minutes. Can also let relatives and friends massage waist yangguan hole, each time press massage 3 ~ 10 minutes, can help to improve the symptom of waist pain.

3. Avoid sitting

While driving the body in a rigid state for a long time, it is easy to cause poor blood circulation, low back pain also are also easy to happen, so you need to avoid sitting for a long time, such as every 1 hours to get off, might as well stop down activities under the bones and muscles. When the lights are stuck in traffic, why not open the soothing music in the car, sit on the right side of your body, hold your chest, and take time to do some health exercises.

4. Massage and massage

Massage stimulates muscles and tissues, promotes blood circulation, speeds up metabolism, and also soothes muscles and nerves to help bone marrow and muscle absorb nutrients and vitamins. Targeted massage and correction can also restore lightness, improve muscle tension or cramps.

5. Dietary therapy

Low back pain is a good source of vitamin C. Followed by vitamin B1, B6, B12, fat-soluble vitamins, vitamin D, folic acid, to prevent the lack of, should be appropriate to eat some rice bran, wheat bran, carrots, cod liver oil, yeast, fresh fruits and vegetables.

How to prevent driving back pain?

In response to driving back pain, you can first adjust your posture and keep your waist up. With appropriate postures and gestures, and postures, timely transformation can make lumbar curve is normal, avoid the happening of waist and leg pain, every 30 minutes standing, sitting, and so change a position, effective prevention of lumbocrural pain.

Second, you can stretch your waist and support your stomach. Stretch waist is through the movement of the whole body, with shu live physique, mediate qi blood, adjust breath, have the positive fitness effect; The patient is upright, with two legs apart and slightly wider than the shoulder. The patient has his hands on his hips, and keeps the abdomen as long as possible, and lasts for 5~10 seconds. Stretch waist and waist can adjust the tension of abdominal muscles in the waist to a certain extent, the physiological curvature of the lumbar spine can be adjusted to a certain extent, especially after sitting for a long time.

In addition, it can be hot, warm and clear. Patients with lumbar pain erect, two feet apart, slightly wider than the shoulder; With the palms of hands rubbing against the heat, quickly place the palms of the palms together on both sides of the skin and rub 49 times up and down to make the skin feel warm and warm. It requires light movement, fluency and close skin, but avoid rubbing skin.

In the end, you can curl your hips and flex your muscles. Patients with lumbar pain erect, two feet apart, slightly wider than the shoulder; The center of the hip is the center of the hip, and rotate at a constant speed on the left, front, right and back, drawing the oval 49 times, with moderate degrees. Then repeat 49 times in the opposite direction.