How to prevent herniated discs

There are many ways to prevent lumbar disc herniation, such as exerting oneself reasonably, avoiding strenuous exercise, and developing good living habits. 1. Reasonable exertion: If you are lifting heavy objects, you should exert yourself reasonably, squatting down and then leaning your body slightly forward to bear part of the gravity on your leg muscles and reduce the exertion of your waist, which can avoid over-exertion of your waist and cause local muscle injury, thus triggering the aggravation of lumbar herniation of intervertebral discs. 2. Avoid strenuous exercise: long-term strenuous exercise will lead to already ruptured annulus fibrosus to tear, resulting in lumbar disc herniation aggravation, so reasonable exercise can also prevent lumbar disc herniation. You can increase the number of exercises that train the muscles of the lumbar and back muscles, such as small swallow fly and five-point support, so as to improve the internal stability of the spine. 3. Adopt good living habits: daily to choose a regular seat, avoid the use of too soft mattress, avoid sitting and standing for a long time. Diet also needs to be balanced, eat more nutritious food. Lumbar disc herniation requires comprehensive prevention, if there are uncomfortable symptoms, should be timely consultation, improve the examination to clarify the diagnosis, follow the doctor’s instructions for standardized treatment, do not ignore the symptoms of the body, so as not to delay the treatment of the condition.