Can crawling cure lumbar disc herniation?

Suffering from lumbar disc herniation will have a lot of impact on the patient's physical health and life, especially lumbar disc herniation will cause patients to have low back pain, leg pain, and inconvenience in movement. There are many methods that can help patients relieve the symptoms of lumbar disc herniation. Among these methods, crawling is the simplest and most convenient one, which has a good conditioning effect on the patient's lumbar spine.

Crawling method

1. The specific "crawling method" of crawling is to land on the ground with hands and knees, lift your head naturally, let your waist naturally droop, and crawl forward about 20 meters first.

2. After crawling, you can do a few push-ups to increase the effect. Then lie on your back on the bed with your knees bent. Hold your knees with your hands so that your knees are as close to your chest as possible. Then relax and let them fall naturally. Repeat this movement once, and do 20 to 30 times in a row.

After finishing, continue to lie on your back with your knees bent. Use your feet, elbows and head as fulcrums to lift your pelvis. Try to keep your abdomen and knees on the same level. Then slowly lower it. Each up and down movement is one movement. Do 20 to 30 times in a row.

The advantage of this crawling method is that it is simple and easy to do. You only need to take about 10 minutes a day, do it once every night before going to bed, and keep crawling for 2 months.

3. Note: This method must be practiced during the recovery period after the illness has been basically cured. If obvious discomfort or pain occurs, stop crawling immediately.

Note:

1. It should be noted that this exercise method cannot be performed within 1 hour after a meal.

2. Pay attention to the protection of your hands and wrist joints. You can wear wrist guards or put on a pair of shoes when exercising.

3. Crawling should start slowly and then speed up so that you don’t feel out of breath or tired. Don’t stand up immediately after crawling. Patients with severe hypertension, heart disease, cor pulmonale, lumbar osteoporosis, etc. should not do this exercise.

The benefits of crawling exercises are as follows:

1. It has positive significance in preventing and treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

2. When the human body is upright, the heart has to overcome the influence of gravity of blood in order to promote blood circulation. Moreover, when people crawl, the lower limbs are the main active organs, and blood will be distributed more to the lower limbs, while the blood supply to the heart and organs above it will be reduced. At the same time, since the position of the heart and the parts above it is lowered when crawling, it is more conducive to blood circulation throughout the body and has a positive effect on preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases.

2. It is effective in regulating bone diseases throughout the body.

Crawling fitness can distribute the whole body weight to the limbs to reduce the load on various parts of the body, especially the lumbar spine. Therefore, it has a certain effect on preventing and treating lumbar diseases, lumbar muscle strain, and various neck, shoulder, and spinal diseases.

3. Can improve brain circulation.

When crawling, the head often droops, which increases blood flow and effectively improves blood circulation in the brain, making people clear-headed and clear-eyed, enhances memory, improves sleep, and reduces the occurrence of diseases such as headaches.

4. Crawling can make the body stronger.

Because crawling is a whole-body coordinated activity, the muscles, ligaments, bones and even the nervous system of the whole body are involved in the movement. Long-term practice can fully exercise the skeletal muscles of the whole body.

5. Crawling brings two great benefits to bones.

Crawling makes bones harder, which can reduce osteoporosis, and at the same time makes joints softer, reducing the occurrence of fractures.

6. Crawling can benefit your muscles.

It makes muscles more tense and elastic, more developed, able to contract freely, and better stabilize the joints.

7. Crawling promotes respiratory function.

Crawling is a good aerobic exercise. When the arms are stretched forward and the diaphragm is stretched, a large amount of oxygen is inhaled. When the lower limbs move upward, the diaphragm is compressed, which promotes the lungs to expel a large amount of waste gas. Moreover, the coordination of inhalation and exhalation depends on the way you move while crawling. The faster you crawl, the more deep breaths you take.

8. Crawling can help the human body maintain balance.

When crawling, especially crawling on hands and feet, the vestibular balance system of the brain needs to be involved to maintain the balance of the body, so that it can be exercised and strengthened.