Acute Lumbar Muscle Sprain or Strain treatment. Acupuncture Can Treat Acute Lumbar Muscle Sprain or Strain?

At beginning I would like to talk about some anatomy. Our lumbar spine consists of five bony vertebrae cushioned by intervertebral discs made of cartilage. The lumbosacral region of the spine bears enormous loads and is responsible for mobility of the trunk. The muscles are essential for demanding weight-bearing activities such as walking, bending, turning, or lifting.

Sprains and strains imply stretching or tearing of the tissue involved, either muscles (strain) or ligaments (sprain). Sprains are ligamentous injuries typically caused by sudden, strong contraction, torsion, a direct blow, or a sudden, forceful straightening from a crouched position. Strains are either partial or complete tears of muscle-tendon units, usually as a result of strong muscular contraction sustained in forceful stretching. Stretching or tearing of the deep muscles of the lumbar spine will generally present with pain and spasm. The tissues are deep, and therefore it is difficult to categorize these injuries. Temporary or permanent damage of lumbosacral structure can result.

Basing on Traditional Chinese Medicine theory, pain is caused by something blocks in some place. You can imagine there are plenty of drive ways in our body and there are a lot of cars run on those ways. The drive ways are Meridians and cars are Qi(likes energy that goes throw whole body). When the drive ways are flowing freely and Qi can go throw really smooth, and then you will feel very comfortable. However, if there are some bad guys who block the road and the other cars cannot pass, the traffic jam would be happened. While it happens you would feel pain.

Acupuncturing can be imagined as police. You can imagine that you are given acupuncture means policemen come and disperse those trouble makers. After police coming and trying to restore flow, they have to clean those bad guys away. They need tow trucks to tow blocker out of there, and the tow trucks you can think those are water, so you must drink a lot of warm water after being acupunctured.

Most of patients who would feel relax immediately, and they would feel much better in couple hours.Acupuncture can treat Acute Lumbar Muscle Sprain or Strain really well.