After acute lumbar sprain, bed rest is the most basic treatment. Bed rest is not only beneficial to relieve lumbar muscle spasm, reduce activity and relieve pain, but also to promote the repair and healing of injured tissues. The bed is a hard bed with a cotton pad, with a thickness of 10 cm, which is suitable for free posture and has no pain or mild pain. Stay in bed for at least 1 week for acute lumbar myofascial sprain, and stay in bed for 3-4 weeks for acute lumbar joint sprain, so as to ensure repeated repair of damaged tissues and avoid chronic low back and leg pain. You should cooperate with other treatments during bed rest.

After sprain 1 ~ 2 days, cold compress the waist with towel to promote the contraction of ruptured small blood vessels to stop bleeding, and then hot compress the waist to promote the absorption of hematoma. In addition, there are physical therapy (such as ultrasound, infrared rays, pulse waves), manual massage, cupping, acupuncture, pain point sealing and so on. Can relieve symptoms, can choose one or two according to the situation, or dog skin ointment, tiger bone ointment, Huoluo Dan, Da Die pill, ibuprofen and other Chinese and western medicines.

2. Old people's lumbar sprain can be relieved by rubbing "Yao Yao point".

Lumbar sprain is also called lumbar flash. As long as you click on "Yaoshan Point", the symptoms of low back pain can be quickly relieved.

Yao Yao point is on the calf, and there is a tender point near the intersection of 1/3 and 1/3 on the connecting line between Chengshan point and Kunlun point, which is called Yao Yao point.

Methods: The patient was prone. After the doctor found the bilateral "waist-flashing points", he suddenly pressed the bilateral points with his thumb for 3 ~ 5 times, and then massaged 1 ~ 3 minutes, depending on the patient's tolerance and slight sweating. Then gently massage the waist for a few minutes to end the treatment. After one manipulation, the patient improved obviously, once a day or every other day. After 1 ~ 5 treatments, the symptoms of low back pain disappeared.

3. Lumbar sprain in the elderly can be treated with local blocking.

If the pain after acute lumbar sprain is severe and accompanied by muscle spasm, you can choose the method of local sealing of the main pain points. Choose the pain point and use 0.5% procaine 20 ml as the injured tissue infiltration. If it is a local injury and the infiltration is correct, the pain can be stopped immediately. The second method not only has diagnostic value, but also can relieve spasm and pain, improve blood supply and prevent adhesion. Adding 1 ml prednisolone to the liquid medicine can reduce the inflammatory reaction and prevent the formation of adhesion. Repeat after 3-4 days for the effective ones.

How to prevent lumbar sprain in the elderly

1, get ready for activities before strenuous activities.

In particular, waist preparation activities should be done seriously, such as bending back and forth, bending left and right, jumping up and down, rotating the waist, flapping the waist and so on. After the waist is fully active, at this time, the muscles are hot and the blood circulation is smooth, and then taking part in strenuous exercise, it is not easy to cause lumbar sprain.

2. Pay attention to the correct posture and apply proper force.

Every fitness exercise has certain essentials, so you should master the correct posture. The waist movement should be gradual, first small and then big, and don't use violence to avoid spraining the waist.

Step 3 protect your waist

People with chronic lumbar muscle strain, lumbar hyperosteogeny, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis and chronic lumbar sprain have weak muscles and ligaments and poor coordination and stability. When exercising, we should pay attention to protecting the waist, tighten the waist with a wide belt, strengthen the support for the waist, and be careful not to make sudden efforts and bend over too much.

Step 4 strengthen waist exercise

Any kind of tissue in the body has the law of "use in and waste out", and the tissue at the waist is no exception. Regular waist exercise can dilate blood vessels, improve blood circulation, provide more adequate nutrition, strengthen bones and muscles, and enhance ligament elasticity. Even in the case of heavy load, there will be no lumbar sprain. The exercises to strengthen the waist include sit-ups, push-ups, twisting the waist and turning around, bending down to pick up beans, arching the body into a bridge shape, and spreading Jin Yan's wings. You can choose exercise according to your hobbies. As long as you stick to it regularly and persevere, you can exercise a strong waist.

What does an old man with a sprained waist eat?

1, 1 pig kidney,12g dried tangerine peel. Wash and slice pig kidney, cook it with Chenpi, and add seasoning to eat.

2, 200 grams of lean pork, 40 grams of salvia miltiorrhiza, the above two materials can be eaten daily when cooked together. Suitable for acute lumbar sprain.

3, 2 pork kidneys, 24 grams of dried tangerine peel, cut the washed pork kidneys into pieces, stew with dried tangerine peel, add seasoning, and eat with meals. Suitable for acute lumbar sprain.

4. 20g of kudingcha, 20g of sappan wood12g, 4g of green duck eggs and 5g of salt15g. First, put broadleaf vines, sappan wood and duck eggs together in the castle, and add cold water to cook them together. After the eggs are cooked, add salt and cook for 20 minutes. Eat 1 ~ 2 eggs each time.

5. Rhubarb, Angelica dahurica and Cinnamomum cassia each 65438±00g, camphor 2g, and liquor 65438±050ml. * * * Soak for 1 day, and you can drink it. Take 10 ml each time, twice a day. Generally, it only takes 1~2 days to treat sprained low back pain, and the disease will be cured. Clinical use has repeatedly achieved miraculous results.

6. 60 grams of ginger, 30 grams of raw rhubarb, and 0.5 grams of borneol/kloc-0. Peel ginger, wash it, mash it, juice it, grind rhubarb and borneol into fine powder, and then add appropriate amount of boiling water to make it into paste. Before use, mash 5 scallions, stir fry them, wrap them with cloth, rub them on the sore surface until the local skin turns red, then apply medicine to wrap them, and change the dressing every day/kloc-0 times. The cure time is 2-5 days.