My waist is a little sore, what's going on?

The problem of waist soreness and swelling is more common in middle-aged and elderly people. Usually, middle-aged and elderly friends will easily suffer from waist soreness and swelling if they have heavy workload or if they are not careful and strain their muscles. In addition, waist soreness and swelling may also be related to certain diseases. So what is the reason for waist soreness and swelling? What other situations can cause waist soreness and swelling? Let us take a look at it together below.

What is the cause of backache? The causes of backache can be summarized into four categories:

① Caused by diseases of the spinal bones and joints and the surrounding soft tissues, such as local injuries, bleeding, edema, adhesions and muscle spasms caused by contusions and sprains.

② Caused by spinal cord and spinal nerve diseases, such as spinal cord tumors, myelitis, etc.

③ Caused by diseases of internal organs. For example, infection of the uterus and its appendages, tumors can cause lumbar pain, and such patients often have corresponding gynecological symptoms.

④ Caused by mental factors. For example, patients with hysteria may also complain of back pain, but there are no objective signs, or objective examinations and subjective descriptions cannot be explained by physiological anatomy and pathological knowledge. This kind of back pain is often a manifestation of hysteria.

What causes backache? What causes backache?

The most common clinical diseases that can cause low back pain are mainly the following: lumbar muscle strain, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar bone hyperplasia, various kidney diseases, such as chronic nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, etc., various gynecological inflammations, such as pelvic inflammatory disease, endometritis, etc.

To determine what disease a symptom represents, there is a set of "positional diagnosis" principles in clinical practice. This means finding out what tissues and organs are located where the symptoms occur, and then first considering the diseases of these tissues and organs in diagnosis.

The main organs and tissues in the anatomy of the "waist" are: psoas major muscle, lumbar vertebrae, lumbar nerves and blood vessels, kidneys, and adrenal glands. Theoretically, diseases of all these tissues and organs can cause low back pain, but to specifically determine what disease it is, a detailed medical history and relevant examinations are needed.