What happens to low back pain after doing sit-ups

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It is also a normal phenomenon to show pain in the waist after doing sit-ups. Because the muscles of the waist will contract repeatedly during sit-ups, this situation will cause local muscle fiber congestion and edema, forming sterile inflammation, causing some inflammatory cytokines to exude, such as prostaglandin factor, tumor necrosis factor, these factors will stimulate the surrounding soft tissue to cause inflammatory fluid exudation, thus stimulating the surrounding nerves to cause pain. In addition, repeated sit-ups may cause lumbar disc herniation, pressure changes in the spinal canal, through the nerve will reflect to the waist, so it will cause waist pain, this time must actively pay attention to rest, prevent sit-ups, strengthen warmth, prevent catching cold, local hot compress, sleep hard bed rest, local can use flurbiprofen cataplasm, can also take some diclofenac sodium orally.

What happens to low back pain after doing sit-ups



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