What causes pain on both sides of the buttocks?

People will encounter some special situations in their daily work and life. Pain on both sides of the buttocks is a very common situation. This situation mostly occurs in people who sit for a long time, but many people do not know the specific reasons and do not know why they have this pain on both sides of the buttocks. So, what causes pain on both sides of the buttocks?

First, what is the reason for the pain on both sides of the buttocks? Most of the pain is not caused by the buttocks, but the early stage of lumbar disc herniation, which compresses the sciatic nerve and causes annoying pain. According to surgical experts, many urban female white-collar workers suffer from buttock pain. Sitting for long periods of time, incorrect sitting posture, and wearing high heels for a long time have made sciatica a "office disease." Experts analyze that sciatica among modern urban female white-collar workers is mostly related to their careers. In a normal human spine, the waist bulges forward, while the sacrum (coccyx) bulges backward, thus forming a normal physiological curvature. However, most of our office chairs have straight backs, and working postures such as stretching our hands forward when using a computer and bending over a desk increase the burden on the spine. Not only that, some female white-collar workers often wear high heels, which causes the center of gravity of the human body to lean forward and the mechanics of the spine to change, resulting in compression and wear on the lumbar intervertebral disc, leading to disc herniation, pressing on the sciatic nerve, and thus causing the severe pain that occurs from time to time.

Second, in addition to sitting posture and high heels, some minor injuries that are not taken seriously in daily life may leave sequelae to the intervertebral disc. Trauma is the most common cause of a herniated disc and thus compression of the sciatic nerve. The pain from some trauma may be very short-lived and pass after a while, but when the pain is relieved, patients often do not pay enough attention to it, thinking that "it will heal naturally once the pain stops." But in fact, at this time the body's waist and back muscles may have been damaged, the protective function of the vertebrae has been destroyed, causing uneven force on the vertebrae, and over time the intervertebral disc will slowly protrude.

What is the reason for pain on both sides of the buttocks? In the early stage of lumbar disc herniation, the symptoms are not back pain, but buttocks pain, followed by radiating pain in the lower limbs and numbness in the lower limbs. By the time limping occurs when walking, the disc herniation has gradually formed. Therefore, if you experience hip pain and have a history of trauma, do not take it lightly and go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.