Can you run backwards if you have lumbar disc herniation?

Can I run backwards if I have a lumbar disc herniation?

After suffering from lumbar disc herniation, in addition to good treatment, it is also important to take care of your daily life. You should do moderate exercise to promote the relief of lumbar symptoms. Through investigation, it was found that after suffering from lumbar disc herniation, you can walk backwards, which helps to relieve the patient's pain and has a certain therapeutic effect. Let's take a look at this aspect below.

Can I run backwards if I have a lumbar disc herniation?

It must be known that walking backwards cannot completely cure lumbar disc herniation. Everyone must pay special attention to it. Lumbar disc herniation requires the use of local physical therapy or massage and other methods. Of course, surgery may be necessary to control the root cause of the disease.

Is walking backwards good for lumbar disc herniation?

Walking backwards has certain benefits for lumbar disc herniation. Lumbar disc herniation is caused by certain abnormalities in the muscles of the waist and back tissues. Walking backwards requires the waist to be straightened or slightly leaning backward. In this way, the spine and waist and back muscles will bear greater gravity and movement force than usual, so that the spine and back muscles that cannot be fully exercised when walking forward are exercised. Moreover, walking backwards can exercise the lumbar spinal muscles, quadriceps, and muscles and ligaments around the ankle and knee joints, thereby adjusting the motor function of the spine and limbs, enhancing the stability and flexibility of the lumbar spine, and correcting the straightening or kyphosis of the lumbar spine's physiological curvature. It helps to relieve and recover lumbar disc herniation to a certain extent.

1. Correct unreasonable waist posture

Walking backwards is walking in the opposite direction, with the center of gravity shifted backwards, which has a corrective effect on the curvature of the spine. It can also reduce pelvic tilt and lumbar lordosis, while exercising your own muscles to effectively relieve lumbar disc herniation.

2. Enhance the strength of lumbar spinal muscles

When walking backwards, the waist muscles will contract and relax rhythmically, which can improve the blood circulation in the waist and help increase the metabolic rate of the waist tissue. Normal walking will not have this effect. The lumbar spinal muscles are strengthened, which can reduce the pressure on the spine and intervertebral discs, thereby reducing the pressure on the nerve roots and alleviating the symptoms of intervertebral disc herniation. Therefore, walking backwards can relieve the symptoms of lumbar disc herniation to a certain extent.

Walking backwards can prevent lumbar disc herniation

Walking backwards cannot cure lumbar disc herniation, but it can protect the lumbar spine tissue movement to a certain extent, and it can also effectively strengthen the waist and back muscles of the human body. Walking backwards frequently can indeed prevent lumbar disc herniation, so everyone needs to pay special attention to it. Walking backwards can also protect the waist tissue of the human body, because the human body can exercise the waist muscles most of the time, which can enhance the range of motion of the human waist and make the human waist more flexible.