Is coughing low back pain taking your cold from annoying to downright painful? I’ll teach you why the two are connected and how to avoid the pain.
There are 3 major categories of back issues – flexion dysfunction, extension dysfunction, and compression dysfunction.
If you’ve got flexion dysfunction, movements that involve flexing or bending forward will aggravate your low back pain symptoms.
If you’ve got extension dysfunction, movements that involve extending through the spine will be problematic for you.
In the last type, compression dysfunction, activities that cause weight to bear down through your spine will aggravate your symptoms.
When people cough, we tend to go into flexion. That’s because when you cough, your abdominal muscles engage. These muscles are flexors of the spine.
Because of this, it’s not surprising that coughing low back pain is more likely to be an issue for people with flexion dysfunction.
It’s also a big issue for folks with compression dysfunction because any strong muscular contraction in the torso will probably add to the compression forces and cause symptom aggravation.
The strategies will differ based on what type of low back pain you’ve got, so it’s important you take a look at your symptoms and understand the root cause.
If you have flexion dysfunction, your strategy will be to avoid letting a cough pull you forward into flexion.
If compression dysfunction is giving you trouble, you want to avoid strong abdominal contractions when you cough.
The simple postural adjustments taught in this video will help prevent that irritating cough from causing big setbacks in your low back pain progress.
That way, the next time you’ve got a cough, you can avoid your back symptoms flaring up. You need to focus on getting over your cough – not dealing with a new low back pain episode!
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