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If your back hurts in the morning
You wake up to the alarm clock and the first thing you feel is lower back pain. Sharp or aching, restricting movement or weak – it is always unpleasant, leads to discomfort and makes you suffer.
According to statistics, such pains are familiar to almost half of the adult population of the country. Most patients are in no hurry to sign up for a consultation with a doctor. Just think, a little grabbed, with whom it does not happen!
They most often get an appointment with a specialist when time is lost, when they have to swallow the strongest drugs in handfuls and even perform surgery. Is it possible to bring yourself to such a state?
What should be done?
If the pain in the morning occurs regularly, it is necessary to undergo an examination. But before that, you should observe yourself for several days, perhaps even write down on a piece of paper: what worries you, what is the nature of the pain, when it occurs and when it passes. Pay attention to how physical activity affects: pain intensifies the next morning or, conversely, decreases.
Who and in what cases have morning pains:
People who lead an inactive lifestyle often find themselves in stressful situations.
In women after menopause and during pregnancy.
In patients suffering from osteochondrosis, scoliosis, arthrosis.
In persons with some pathologies of internal organs.
Those who take the wrong position of the body during sleep.
Without movement there is no life
No wonder they say: what does not work – dies. So are our muscles: in conditions of hypodynamia, they atrophy. And the pain in this case is the first bell that speaks of the need to immediately take care of yourself.
During sedentary work, try to get up more often, leave the office, periodically do exercises from the “invisible” gymnastics complex, go in for fitness and do not forget to do exercises in the morning. On the way home, get off the tram or bus 1-2 stops earlier and walk home.
Waiting for a baby
Pain that regularly occurs in the lower back during pregnancy in the morning should alert. This can manifest itself as an inflammatory process that occurs in the kidneys or even renal colic. And if there are other signs (fever, frequent urination, swelling, discoloration of urine) – immediately inform your doctor. An examination will definitely reveal the cause of the ailment.
Often such pains appear in absolutely healthy pregnant women. Physiological changes occur in the body, the stomach grows, pressure on the internal organs and blood vessels increases, and, as a result, pain occurs. There’s nothing you can do about it – you’ll have to be patient. Uncontrolled intake of painkillers in this case can subsequently cost the baby dearly.
osteochondrosis
Interesting: most of the patients are women, but the most severe osteochondrosis occurs in men. Due to excessive loads on the spinal column, metabolism is disturbed in the intervertebral cartilages, they become thinner and deformed, squeezing blood vessels and nerves – pain occurs. Moreover, morning pain after waking up is the very first sign of an incipient disease. This disease of the spine is not fatal, but extremely unpleasant. A sharp decrease in the quality of life, restrictions on movement, excruciating pain that can increase or, conversely, weaken if the patient has changed the position of the body.
Low back pain occurs in the morning and with other diseases: osteoporosis, arthrosis, ankylosing spondylitis, scoliosis, rheumatoid arthritis, sciatica, lumbago, benign and malignant neoplasms localized in this part of the body, microtraumas and injuries of the lumbar spine.
Kidney diseases of an inflammatory nature (pyelonephritis, nephrolithiasis) and an autoimmune nature (glomerulonephritis) can also lead to lumbar pain after waking up. Often after the release of the bladder pass. The nature of the pain (it can be both acute and pulling) does not change in any way when changing the position of the body, when making movements. With renal colic, pain often radiates (gives) to the lower abdomen. In this case, changes in urination are almost always observed.
Also, such pain occurs with the following diseases: tuberculosis, stroke, pancreatitis, aortic aneurysm, appendicitis, gallbladder pathologies, endometriosis (in women) and other diseases.
Sleep position. Recommendations of orthopedists
Orthopedic doctors recommend sleeping on your side, while the shoulder should not lie on the pillow, but on the mattress. And the pillow itself should be small and rectangular in shape and fit between the shoulder and the head. It is better to purchase an orthopedic mattress and pillow.
If you have a habit of sleeping on your stomach or back, you need to gradually get rid of it. During sleep in these positions, the human musculoskeletal system endures huge overloads.
Taking painkillers
Allowed only on the advice of the attending physician. Self-administration and treatment leads only to the cessation of pain. taking these drugs does not affect the cause in any way, but sometimes causes complications and has a negative impact on human health.
Prevention
As you can see, there are many reasons for the occurrence of such pain, so you just need to undergo an examination in order to correctly identify the disease and conduct high-quality treatment.
Well, if you are one of those happy people who have just begun the process of changes in the musculoskeletal system, find a good specialist in therapeutic exercises and start a new life next Monday, in which there will be no place for hypodynamia. But be sure to find time to visit the pool and exercise. Just don’t overdo it!