Exercises for bulging discs focus on increasing the strength of the muscles of the low back with the main purpose of making the lumbar spine more stable. Commonly, such as flying swallow type exercise, spinal extension exercises, standing posture back bending exercise, hip bridge exercise, and so on.
1. Flying Swallow Exercise: The patient is in a prone position, with the head, both upper limbs and lower limbs stretched back as far as possible, and the area of the abdomen in contact with the bed or cushion is as small as possible, in the shape of a flying swallow.
2. Spinal extension exercises: patients take a prone position, hands flat on the yoga mat, roughly flush with the chin, stretch the feet, legs together, the hips pressed on the mat, supported by the arms, slowly lift the torso upward while exhaling, a short pause at the top of the movement, to restore the initial position and then repeat.
3. Standing dorsiflexion: stand with feet apart, hands on the back of the waist, four fingers against the sides of the lumbar spine, and bend the torso as far back as possible.
4. Hip Bridge Exercise: patients take the supine position, legs flexed slightly wider than the shoulders, use the upper back, feet 3 points to support the body, the hips slowly raised to the thighs and torso straight.
It is recommended that patients exercise under the guidance of a doctor, so as not to exercise in an incorrect way on their own and cause injury to the organism.