What is the cause of the pain on both sides of the waist?

Although everyone will experience the feeling of lower back pain, the causes of lower back pain are different, so the location of lower back pain is also different. Therefore, patients should determine the cause of their lower back pain based on the location of their lower back pain. So some patients have unilateral waist pain, while some patients have waist pain on both sides. So what is the cause of a patient's waist pain on both sides?

What causes pain on both sides of the waist

1. What is the cause of low back pain?

1.1. Long-term standing work leads to lumbar muscle strain

If your job requires long-term standing, such as sales, barbering, teaching, waiting, etc., long-term and continuous standing will weaken the stretching ability of our lumbar tendons and ligaments, leading to excessive accumulation of local lactic acid. The normal metabolism of the lumbar muscles will be inhibited, which will cause low back pain. In addition, if you often carry heavy objects, like a porter, the burden on your waist is very heavy. If this continues for a long time, it is easy to develop scoliosis and low back pain caused by lumbar muscle strain.

1.2. Overwork

Modern people are under great pressure in life. Although modern women are more independent, men are still the backbone of the family. They have to earn money to support the family and always work very hard. Working overtime and staying up late are common. Lack of sleep and irregular diet can easily cause chronic fatigue. If you stay in this state for a long time, you are prone to back pain. If you do not pay attention to rest and health preservation, the symptoms of back pain will become more and more serious and may lead to the occurrence of some diseases.

1.3. Sitting posture problem

In contrast to people who work standing for a long time, some people sit for a long time at work. Sitting is more comfortable than standing, but if you do not pay attention to your sitting posture, you are likely to have back pain. The ancients paid attention to the correct sitting posture and standing posture, but people sit in different postures. Many people bend over or lean on a chair. If you sit in these wrong postures for a long time, you will naturally suffer from back pain. If you want to relieve the back pain of people who sit for a long time, you must first learn the correct sitting posture.

2. What causes pain on both sides of the waist in men?

2.1 Lumbar spine disease

Lumbar spine disease can also cause low back pain. As age increases, the symptoms of lumbar nerve compression will increase. Pseudospondylolisthesis caused by degenerative diseases is a common disease, which can easily cause lumbar spinal stenosis, compress the spinal cord and nerve roots, lead to low back pain and radiating pain in the lower limbs, and is often caused by vertebral collapse fractures due to osteoporosis. Osteophyte formation in the elderly can cause spinal stiffness and persistent low back pain.

2.2 Hydronephrosis

Hydronephrosis is a pathological change in the kidneys caused by ureteral obstruction due to ureteral stones, tumors, congenital diseases and other reasons, which prevents urine from being discharged into the bladder smoothly. The main symptoms of hydronephrosis are soreness and swelling on one side of the waist.

2.3. Unhealthy sexual life

Having sex too frequently can cause strain-related low back pain, but not having sex to the fullest can also cause neuralgic low back pain. Therefore, when engaging in sexual intercourse, both parties must maintain an appropriate frequency and act within their capabilities.

2.4. Prostate problems

The most common prostate problem is prostatitis, which not only causes lower abdominal pain and perineal pain, but also low back pain. However, the low back pain caused by prostatitis is mostly in the lower back, which is different from the low back pain caused by other symptoms.

2.5. Lumbar injury

Low back pain may also be caused by lumbar muscle strain. Standing for a long time and carrying too much weight can lead to lumbar muscle strain.

2.6 Urinary system

Many patients with pyelonephritis also experience symptoms of low back pain, but this type of low back pain is mainly bloating. In addition, urinary system stones and tuberculosis can also cause low back pain, but its characteristics are hematuria accompanied by renal colic, or symptoms such as interrupted urination, difficulty urinating, hematuria, and low back pain. Pyelonephritis is characterized by hematuria accompanied by dysuria, hematuria, frequent urination, back pain, and fever.

3. What causes pain on both sides of the waist in women?

3.1 Pelvic inflammatory disease

Lower back pain during menstruation may be caused by menstrual fever, and lower abdominal pain may be caused by pelvic inflammatory disease.

2.2. Retroverted uterus

Lower back pain during menstruation may be caused by a retroverted uterus or other diseases. Therefore, if women have this symptom, it is recommended to go to the hospital for examination in time.

2.3 Endometriosis

If your menstrual cramps become more severe and last longer, you may have endometriosis. Therefore, women must pay great attention to it.

3.4 Endometritis

Normal menstrual blood is dark red. If the color of menstrual blood is light brown, or the odor changes, and the body temperature rises and lower abdominal pain occurs, you may have endometritis.

How to treat pain on both sides of the waist

Commonly used physical therapies for low back pain include massage, acupuncture, cupping, laser therapy, etc. These therapies mainly focus on anti-inflammatory, analgesic, blood circulation and blood stasis removal, and it is difficult to eradicate the cause and treat the root cause.

The traditional traction method is performed in bed and can only be performed intermittently twice a day. Every time the patient with low back pain gets out of bed to go home or exercise, the retracted nucleus pulposus will be compressed and protrude again under the pressure of the upper body gravity, causing all previous efforts to be wasted, thus leading to repeated attacks of lumbar spondylosis.

The drug therapy for lumbar spondylosis mainly has the effects of anti-inflammatory, analgesic, blood circulation and blood stasis removal, and has obvious effects in the early or acute stage of the disease. However, drug therapy can generally only relieve the symptoms of low back pain, but cannot eradicate the cause and achieve the goal of curing the disease. Moreover, drugs have different degrees of toxic side effects and are not suitable for long-term use.