Causes and treatments for low back pain in the athlete

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Low back pain, more popularly known as "lumbago", is the pain produced in the lower back area.

Our collaborator Healting, tells us on this occasion the possible causes, treatment and prevention of this painful injury.

As we already know, the lumbar area is constituted by 5 vertebrae, with their corresponding intervertebral discs between each of them, ligaments that give stability and muscles that allow movement.

This area is characterized by support important loads causing over efforts in the adjacent musculature and may even affect intervertebral, joint, ligament and nerve structures.

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Most cases of lumbalgias in triathletes, usually due to a significant contraction and stiffness of the entire lumbar musculature, by overexertion that leads the muscle to undergo a spasm. The different disciplines carried out by triathletes favor the appearance of this overload due to different factors:

  • La position held in the saddle of the bicycle.
  • The constant Repetitive impact while we run that gets even worse if it is done on hard surfaces.
  • To a lesser extent, the movement of the badly executed crawl kick It can irritate the area slightly and perpetuate the existing lumbago.

All these actions together, can cause us to have a back pain of a "mechanical" nature, with local pain, functional impotence that prevents us from performing active movements of said area and consequently the decrease of physical activity.

In the most excessive cases and by activation of the trigger points of the lumbar area (https://www.triatlonnoticias.com/articulos-lesiones/puntos-gatillo-miofasciales-triatlon), the pain can radiate to other adjacent areas such as the lower dorsals and more often to the gluteal muscles.

Transmission

The treatment that we carry out and recommend from Healthing It consists of several phases.

At first, which would be the first days of the acute phase of pain, we made our treatment focused on manual therapy and osteopathic techniques, using the bending-distraction stretcher during the treatment and combining it with the high-power laser application, diathermy y Vacusport, in addition to performing neuromodulation to control pain and muscle spasm.

After the inflammation and pain phase, we continue with a most active phase to recover mobility and improve it. It's the moment when we started with therapy Redcord Neurac (https://healthing.es/que-es-redcord-neurac/), with it we look for the weaknesses and the imbalances of each patient and we manage to strengthen the deep muscles and reeducate the movement patterns.

Finally we will focus on analyze what were the main causes of the appearance of low back pain in each of our patients, in order to be able to give them the appropriate recommendations, both with regard to the biomechanics of the race or the bike, with regard to footwear, as well as training habits.

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