What's wrong with back pain from meditation?

Does the feeling of back pain often occur in meditation? Some people say that this is a normal phenomenon encountered in meditation, don't care too much, just keep practicing and you will be fine. Is it really possible not to care? In fact, we still need to pay attention to the following, or let's take a look at meditation back pain is what happened? How to do when meditating back pain?

What happened to meditation back pain

The waist itself has a disease

Meditation is required to keep the waist straight for a long time, if the waist itself is a disease, such as lumbar muscle strain, lumbar sprain, and so on, and then meditation will cause old diseases and pain.

Sitting in the wrong position

Sometimes because of the correct sitting posture can not adhere to the meditation, the situation of bending back arch, the pressure on the waist becomes large, is easy to become fatigued lumbar muscle, long down will lead to lumbar muscle strain.

Meditation time is too long

Because of prolonged meditation, the waist to maintain a posture for too long, too much strength, the waist muscles are prone to soreness.

Pain caused by spinal lesions

Meditation often happens when sleeping, and the sleeping posture will inevitably lower the head and chest, the burden on the spine becomes larger, for a long time, may affect the shape of the spine or even spinal lesions, and spinal lesions are more likely to cause pain in the waist.

What are the dangers of meditating on back pain?

When you first start meditating, it's really normal to have back pain because your body doesn't adapt, and then you won't have back pain after your body adapts. However, if every time you meditate you get back pain, the long-term accumulation will cause lumbar muscle spasm, lumbar muscle strain and other lumbar diseases, so you need to pay attention to the back pain. If the pain is mild, you can take measures to relieve it, but if it is too serious, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible.

What to do about back pain from meditation

Keep the waist upright

When meditating, the body should be loose and straight, to ensure that the waist is upright, do not hunch over the back. This can avoid damage to the waist due to incorrect posture.

Stand up and move around

Meditation if the back pain is unbearable, you can change the sitting posture to standing posture, stand up and move to reduce the pressure on the waist.

Change the posture of the two feet

Long-term use of a posture easy to cause pressure on the spine, you can meditate after a period of time, change the posture of the two feet. If the right foot was on the top, the left foot in the bottom, you can switch, replace the left foot up to help reduce the pressure on the spine and not cause pressure on the waist.

Choose the right cushion

A suitable cushion is also very important, the kind of soft and thick cushion, will make the middle sink very deep, which in turn is easy to make the leg blood flow is not smooth, but also affect the circulation of the waist. Therefore, it is best to choose a cushion that is not hard or soft, and sit a third of its place to keep the blood flowing.

Relax the waist before and after meditation

Before and after meditation can twist the waist, massage the waist muscles, so that the waist muscles are relaxed. The appearance of pain can relieve some, no can also play a preventive role.

Some ways to relieve back pain

Shake your legs

Standing position, with the waist does not hurt the side of the leg to bear the weight of the body, the other side is kept relaxed, the palm of the hand on the back of the thigh stick, and then shake the leg muscles from side to side, about 1-2 minutes shaking, can play a role in relieving back pain.

Massage

When you have low back pain, you can use massage acupuncture points to relieve low back pain. The more useful points are the ring jump point (located at the midpoint of the line between the sciatic tuberosity and the greater trochanter of the femur), the commission point (at the center of the back of the thigh, outside the center of the popliteal fossa), the Chengshan point at the center of the calf belly, and the Taixi point at the back of the inner ankle, etc. You can massage these points 1-3 times a day, each time until there is a soreness and swelling.

Walking backwards

Walking backwards can be better to relieve back pain, try not to let the knees bend when walking, relax the waist, make a fist with both hands, wrap your thumb with four fingers, and swing your arms naturally. Walk backwards about 100 to 200 steps each time, 2 to 3 times a day.