From a doctor’s professional point of view, exercise is a double-edged sword for lumbar disc herniation, which can speed up the recovery process or put the patient in a dangerous situation. In fact, the lumbar disc herniation patients exercise the most critical three elements: lumbar disc herniation to what extent, now lumbar disc herniation in what stage, choose what kind of exercise. The following small editor to talk to you about a few things about lumbar disc herniation: 1, lumbar disc herniation can exercise? The answer is yes. Before recommending exercise methods for you, let’s talk about the mechanism of exercise therapy for lumbar disc herniation. The symptoms of lumbar disc herniation include two main aspects, lumbar symptoms and nerve compression symptoms. Many doctors and rehab physical therapists want to exercise to bring the herniated portion of the disc back into the disc as much as possible and reduce nerve compression. This also requires a lot of stretching, which is actually a very difficult endeavor to achieve, and this can sometimes make the herniated disc worse. I personally do not advocate doing strenuous exercise to make the herniated intervertebral disc to return, but advocate through exercise to relieve low back symptoms, while moderate exercise to reduce the nerve localization of adhesion, so I recommend a more gentle way of exercise. Lumbar disc herniation exercise 2, lumbar disc herniation can now exercise? For patients with lumbar disc herniation, whether you can do sports or not, to what extent your lumbar disc herniation, you now lumbar disc herniation at what stage. Generally speaking, severe lumbar disc herniations have more restrictions on exercise, while mild ones have fewer restrictions. During an acute episode of lumbar disc herniation, sports are absolutely prohibited. In the partial remission period or complete remission period of lumbar disc herniation, you can participate in sports appropriately, but must be authorized by your own competent doctor. 3.What sports are suitable for lumbar disc herniation? Recommended sports 1: swimming Recommendation index: ★★★★★ Recommended reasons: when swimming, the human spine from the original upright state to the level, the spinal burden is greatly reduced, the pressure on the lumbar intervertebral discs will also be reduced. Tips: As many lumbar symptoms will be aggravated by cold, so it is important to warm up before exercise. Recommended sports 2: jogging Recommendation index: ★★★★ Recommended reasons: jogging can make your back straight, so as to play a slow stretch lumbar ligament effect, at the same time jogging shock effect will also increase the nutritional supply of the intervertebral discs. Tips: Do a good job warming up before running, choose the right best running shoes with air cushion. Recommended sports 3: “Yan Fei” Recommendation index: ★★★★★ Recommended reasons: to strengthen the waist muscle exercise, especially the deep muscle exercise. Tips: The focus is not how many to do, amplitude by how much, but the muscle tension and maintenance. Recommended exercise 4: lumbar manipulation Recommendation index: ★★★ Recommendation reason: to strengthen the lumbar muscle exercise, reduce the nerve adhesion Tips: gentle movement, moderate amplitude, step by step, the pain stop Recommended exercise 5: backward walking Recommendation index: ★★ Recommendation reason: backward walking the human body’s center of gravity backward, reduce the pressure of the lumbar intervertebral discs; at the same time on the lumbar back muscles have a certain ability to exercise. Tips: walking backwards has a certain degree of difficulty and risk, try to choose a closed, open and flat places to avoid accidental falls. 4.What are the precautions for doing exercise? Lumbar synostosis patients should not be too much exercise, to combine work and rest, exercise in order not to feel fatigue, relaxation, muscle tension relief, lumbar pain symptoms reduce appropriate, rehabilitation exercise is valuable in persistence, and the need to follow the principle of gradual and orderly progress, do not rush, so as not to cause more serious injury. It is good to do exercise, but when you encounter the following situations, you should stop the exercise and take a rest to avoid aggravating your condition. 1) not warmed up before doing activities, discomfort after the start of exercise; 2) aggravation of lumbar and leg pain after the activity 3) when the weather changes (such as sudden cooling, rain), you can not be brave, so as not to avoid lumbar cold Lastly, I would like to say that, exercise for lumbar disc herniation patients, although it can not be cured, but it can alleviate the symptoms, and can also be harvested through the movement of a better physical condition. Therefore, to protect the lumbar spine, start from the scientific exercise!