How Come The Bottom Is Often Sore? Try To Fix Your Sleep Adequacy

Illustration of the lower back of pain (Freepik)

YOGYAKARTA The lower part often hurts, it can be caused by a number of factors. Like lack of movement or sitting too much. But according to recent studies, lack of sleep can be one of the causes of the lower back pain.

Research in 2015 noted that 7.5 of the global population experienced lower back pain. This is the background for research on the causes. Reported by Medical News Today, Wednesday, January 11, lifestyle factors are associated with a higher risk of lower back pain. Included, physical work, smoking, obesity, and low physical activity. In some cases small, back pain is associated with cancer, fractures, infections, or inflammation disorders.

Several studies have shown that poor sleep quality and back pain correlate. One study used cross sections between 9,611 participants and concluded that lower back pain was associated with short sleep duration and poor sleep quality.

Other studies using genome associations involve scanning genetic material from large numbers of people to identify genes related to certain traits. The lead researcher, doctor Ge Luo and colleagues, obtained data from 336,965 individuals of European descent. This data is used to assess cause-effect relationships between sleep disorders and lower back pain. Participants who have a genetic variant related to the type of sleep disorder, are included in the data analysis. Sleep disorders experienced by participants related to insomnia, short sleep duration, long sleep duration, and drowsiness during the day.

Researchers then used statistical analysis, or called Lysis, to estimate the causal effect between sleep disturbances and lower back pain. Based on the results of the analysis, the researchers concluded that there is a two-way link between insomnia and lower back pain. That is, insomnia can cause or cause lower back pain. They also found that the genetic tendency for short or long sleep duration does not increase the risk of lower back pain. Another finding, lower back pain can increase the risk of drowsiness during the day but find no inverse causal relationship.