With lumbar disc herniation, many people focus on the damaged and protruding lumbar discs, but in fact, the discs that have been protruded, can no longer be restored to their original state, and at this time, it is even more important to mend the folds and pay attention to improving the stability of the spine!
What is the relationship between spinal stability and lumbar disc herniation?
Let's take a look at what happened to Mr. Li. Since Mr. Lee was diagnosed with lumbar disc herniation, he has treated his lumbar discs like fragile porcelain, ensuring that he sits for an hour or so to get up and move his body, stands for an hour and then sits down for a rest, does not catch a cold, does not eat cold food? In short, all kinds of favorable lumbar spine things are kept in mind.
But there is only one thing, Mr. Lee does not like to move, and not in accordance with the doctor's instructions to regularly exercise the lumbar back muscles, which makes his lumbar disc herniation in a year 2 times. The doctor asked the reason, only to realize that this disease recurs frequently, but with him did not exercise the lumbar back muscles, lumbar spine of the poor stability related.
After returning home, Mr. Li, opened his exercise mode, the results of 5 years, lumbar disc herniation surprisingly did not commit, control is very good.
It is important to know that the spinal stability of patients with lumbar disc herniation will be reduced because the nucleus pulposus protrudes out, the height of the lumbar discs will be reduced accordingly, and the lumbar spinal space will become narrower, so the stability will be worse. Another important point is that the lumbar back muscles of patients with lumbar disc herniation are weak, and the lumbar muscles and ligaments do not have enough binding force on the lumbar spine, which is also the reason for the decrease in lumbar spine stability.
Once the stability of the lumbar spine decreases, the vertebrae will be abnormally displaced when the human body makes movements, which means that they are not in their original positions, and they will be easily harmed, prompting the attack of lumbar disc herniation. This is not to mention, lumbar spine stability decline, will stimulate the human self-protection performance, and gradually appear yellow ligament hypertrophy and osteophytes.
The stability of the lumbar spine depends on the muscles and ligaments. Therefore, exercising the muscles and ligaments of the lumbar back helps to maintain the stability of the lumbar spine, which means lowering the chances of recurrence of lumbar disc herniation, which is also an important reason why doctors have been emphasizing that patients with lumbar protrusion should exercise the muscles of the lumbar back.
How to exercise the lumbar back muscles to enhance the stability of the lumbar spine?
It doesn't take a lot of hard, sweaty workouts, but a dozen or so common exercises will do the trick.
If you're short on time and don't like outdoor sports, you can use the time at home before bed or after waking up to practice small Yan Fei, five-point support method, do 2 or 3 groups per day (10-15 per group), you can exercise the lumbar back muscles to maintain the stability of the lumbar spine.
If you like outdoor exercise, square dancing, swimming, walking in water, tai chi, and Baduanjin are also good choices.
And the current fashion of yoga, Pilates, abdominal breathing exercises, etc. also have the effect of relieving lumbar pain and maintaining the stability of the lumbar spine.
In short, according to their own preferences or combined with their own specific circumstances (time, site, etc.) to choose one or two methods to adhere to, you will find that the back pain in the unknowing relief, the previous always recurring will also be reduced.