How should patients with lumbar disc herniation swim?

Lumbar disc herniation is one of the common diseases, mainly because all parts of lumbar disc (nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and cartilage plate), especially nucleus pulposus, have different degrees of degenerative changes. Under the action of external factors, the annulus fibrosus of intervertebral disc ruptures, and the nucleus pulposus tissue protrudes (or protrudes) into the back or spinal canal, which leads to the stimulation or compression of the adjacent spinal nerve roots, resulting in a series of clinical symptoms such as low back pain, numbness and pain in one or both lower limbs. The highest incidence rate of lumbar disc herniation is lumbar 4 ~ 5 and lumbar 5 ~ sacrum 1, accounting for about 95%.

Nowadays, people lack exercise for a long time, or work and often sit for a long time, which leads to lumbar disc herniation, which is also a common disease that plagues most people. If lumbar disc herniation is not treated in time, the symptoms caused by its development and compression of ponytail will be more painful, incontinence, abnormal sensation of lower limbs and so on.

For the exercise of lumbar disc herniation, many people don't know where to start or what kind of exercise method to choose. Today, I recommend an exercise method, "swimming", which is recommended by many doctors. It can effectively relieve the symptoms of lumbar disc herniation.

First, it is basically true that swimming can exercise back muscles reasonably and effectively and help to avoid back diseases. At least one thing is certain, that is, under the buoyancy of water, human muscles can be in weightlessness, and such release conditions can reasonably and effectively reduce the pressure on the waist. For patients with lumbar disc herniation, swimming can play a better auxiliary treatment role.

Second, whether all swimming postures are suitable for patients with lumbar disc herniation! The result is impossible. Although swimming affects the lumbar intervertebral disc, not all swimming postures are suitable. Therefore, we must pay special attention to choosing the appropriate swimming posture and method to reduce lumbar disc herniation. If you don't realize this, swimming is difficult to relieve your illness and is likely to aggravate it.

Four swimming postures, breaststroke, backstroke, freestyle and butterfly, are combined from the action posture alone. Clinically speaking, breaststroke is definitely the most suitable for lumbar intervertebral disc, especially wave frog. The key to breaststroke lies in the waist, abdomen and feet (this is likely to be disagreed by novices, who think that waist and abdomen are not powerful and have little to do with it, and can only be felt after in-depth analysis and practical use). In addition, shoulder, waist and back should exert strength when breaststroke takes a breath.

Third, patients with lumbar disc herniation are not suitable for butterfly swimming. Compared with breaststroke, butterfly stroke can make waist and abdomen get reasonable and effective results. However, if the training intensity is too high, the unreasonable use of lumbar disc herniation can not only alleviate the condition, but also aggravate the condition. According to most swimming coaches, "the key of butterfly stroke is waist and abdomen and upper arm, and the action frequency is very high." Long-term butterfly stroke is very easy to increase the burden of lumbar intervertebral disc and even cause compression fracture of lumbar intervertebral disc because of its long-term bearing capacity. Therefore, patients with lumbar disc herniation are not suitable for butterfly swimming.

4. Freestyle and backstroke have the best effect on patients with lumbar disc herniation, and their exercises on waist and abdomen are continuous low-frequency side effects, which can reasonably and effectively make up for the lack of side effects of ordinary lumbar disc herniation, so that the side effects of lumbar disc are not limited to turning around and warming up.

Patients with lumbar disc herniation should pay attention to the following points when swimming:

1, it is not suitable for swimming during the acute attack of lumbar process symptoms. The recovery period is suitable for swimming.

2, the weather is cold, the environment with low water temperature should not avoid swimming, not to mention winter swimming (stimulating muscle and blood vessels to contract and compress nerves), and the amount of exercise should not be too large.

3. It is not advisable to go swimming at the seaside or where the water flow is relatively fast. It avoids the danger that patients with lumbar disc herniation do not have strong muscle strength to support rapid dissociation when an accident occurs. So it is suitable for swimming pools.

4. Warm up before entering the water. Warm up for at least 10 minutes each time. When entering the water, you should first walk into the swimming pool and soak your body to chest level to adapt to the stimulation of water temperature.