Can you do push-ups with a herniated disc?

Patients with lumbar disc herniation can do push-ups. In fact push-ups itself is a comprehensive exercise, and not as the public perception, only to exercise the pectoral muscles and upper limbs. The push-up exercise, in addition to exercising the upper limbs, pectoral muscles, will have a comprehensive exercise effect on the back, waist, abdomen, buttocks and other muscles. So for patients with lumbar disc herniation, it is also more applicable. If the patient has good physical strength, such as the upper limb strength is better, then you can continue to do push-ups. In this way you can exercise the muscles of the lumbar back, after which the physiological curvature of the lumbar spine will be restored. The symptoms associated with lumbar disc herniation can then be relieved and the recurrence of the disease can be prevented. In addition, if these patients are not able to do more intense exercises, they can also choose functional exercises in bed, such as arch bridge, swallow fly, three point support, five point support or reverse push-ups, etc. In addition to this patients can also choose a comprehensive exercise, such as in addition to push-ups, can also do pull-ups, swimming, frog jumping type of exercise.