Lumbar spinal stenosis can be exercised. You can exercise to strengthen your body, but you must be careful not to hurt your body for the sake of fitness, which will not be worth it. Crawling is also a very beneficial exercise for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. It can also reduce the pressure on the spine and enhance the strength of the lumbar back muscles. These exercises generally do half an hour a day, but of course it also depends on the individual situation, to exercise after not feeling tired as a principle. To take heavy things, it is best to also like lifting weights, first squatting, and then holding things up with both hands to reduce the lumbar back muscle force. If you have to carry something for a while, knees should be in a semi-bent state as much as possible, put the center of gravity down and let the heavy things as close to the body as possible. There is no doubt that breaststroke is a good choice. When breaststroke, a stirrup, the vertebrae lengthen, producing a relative gap between the vertebrae, in the state of work of the lumbar muscles will push the protruding discs to the gap reset. But before swimming to do a good job of preparation activities, the water temperature can not be too low. Adhere to daily or every other day brisk walking, jogging and backward walking is also good for lumbar disc herniation.