A sprain is a stretch or tear in the ligament resulting from a sudden movement that causes the back to move into an extreme position. For example, in the rapid deceleration of a car crash, shoveling snow that’s heavier than expected, even sitting for too long can cause a stretch in the ligaments. Not all sprains are traumatic, but all sprains do involve strains of surrounding muscles and tremendous pain. The lumbar sprain seems to feel as if the pain is also at times difficult to localize. It seems to be present in the back, but at other times seems to pierce thru the body into the ribcage or into the buttocks.  Sprains of this type also make the patient aware of postures that are incorrect as well as how poor their lifting/bending techniques were prior to the sprain. Often times the most comfortable position is with the best upright posture.

In TCM, when a constitutionally weak person with insufficiency of kidney qi is invaded by exogenous pathogenic wind, cold and dampness that block the tendons and meridians, it will lead to chronic lumbago. Such congenital lumbosacral deformities as sacralization of lumbus vertebrae, lumharization of sacral vertebrae, subfissure of sacral spine and free spinal processes may cause abnormality of starting and ending points of muscles or imbalance movement of the lumbus, hence resulting in strain.

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