Low back pain is a very common disease in the middle-aged and elderly population, often caused by heavy physical labor, bruises and sprains, long-term sitting, physical weakness and kidney loss or greed. People with low back pain often have difficulty sitting still, and in severe cases, they may radiate to the legs, resulting in limited mobility. In addition to paying attention to the warmth of the waist and avoiding fatigue, patients with low back pain can also be treated with gua sha.
Specifically, the following five can be often scraped, which can improve waist blood circulation, relax the meridians, relieve waist muscle spasm, and have a better therapeutic effect on chronic injury, inflammation, bone hyperplasia and kidney deficiency and low back pain in the waist muscles.
■ Back head
The back head pillow belt of the human body is the waist reflex area, where gua sha does not need to be smeared with gua sha oil, and the scraping board is gently scraped up and down repeatedly, looking for and focusing on scratching the sensitive points of pain, to the degree of slight redness or feeling of fever in the skin of the head.
■The back of the hand
The hand reflex area of the lumbar spine is at the third metacarpal bone on the back of the hand, you can first apply a little gua sha oil, and then slowly scrape the back of the hand along the wrist to the fingertips, if you feel pain under the scraping board, or there are bumps, gravel, nodules, you must focus on slow scraping.
■Knee socket
The knee socket can be used to beat and scrape two methods, take the prone position or the back of the armchair to stand, the knee joint is relaxed, apply even scraping oil to the knee socket area, and then gently pat the knee socket, covering the three acupuncture points of the knee socket, the yang, the middle and the yin valley, pay attention to the beating strength from light to heavy, and rest for 2 seconds per beat. Pain-sensitive people may also use the long side of the scraping board to gently scrape the knee socket.
■Waist
Apply gua sha oil to the back of the waist, and then scrape from top to bottom to stimulate acupuncture points such as waist life gate, kidney Yu, zhi room, waist eye, etc., while scraping, look for areas with positive reactions such as pain, nodules, muscle tension and stiffness, and focus on scraping.
■Foot
Apply gua sha oil to the arch of the foot, scrape the waist area of the heel with the long side of the scraping board, from the toes to the heel, and focus on scraping the painful or nodules.
【Note】 No matter which part of the above is scraped, just scratch for 15-30 minutes a day, the strength is moderate, do not pursue the sha too much. In addition, patients with acute lumbar disc herniation, lumbar trauma within 24 hours and lumbar fractures should not be scraped; It is also forbidden to scrape the skin ulcers of infected skin and diabetic patients. After scraping, attention should be paid to keeping warm, sheltered from the wind, and appropriately replenishing water to promote metabolism.
(According to the Health Sutra, Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Care, etc.)
Source: Public Health Daily WeChat public account