Exercises to improve lumbar disc herniation mainly include hip bridge, swimming, backward walking, supine stomping and so on.
1. Hip bridge: lie on your back on a yoga mat, bend your legs slightly wider than your shoulders, press your heels into the ground and lift your hips to a straight line between your thighs and your body, and support your upper back on the ground when your hips are lifted and your lower back on the ground when you drop down, but your hips are hanging in the air. Hip bridge is beneficial to increase the strength of the low back muscles, help restore the normal curvature of the spine.
2. Swimming: belongs to aerobic fitness, in the water through the buoyancy can reduce the pressure of lumbar disc herniation, help relieve lumbar disc herniation.
3. Walking backwards: one of the causes of lumbar disc herniation is anterior pelvic tilt, walking backwards can correct anterior pelvic tilt, which can help to improve the lumbar disc herniation, but pay attention to not get hurt when walking backwards.
4. Supine pedaling: lie on your back and make your legs out of the position of pedaling a bicycle. This exercise helps to enhance the strength of the muscles of the lower back, which is conducive to the improvement of lumbar disc herniation.
Patients with lumbar disc herniation need to consult a doctor in time, can not be recovered by exercise alone, follow the doctor’s advice, active treatment.