Can I do sit-ups if I have a herniated disc?

Sit-ups are a very simple exercise. Through simple sit-ups, you can improve your body's resistance and immunity, and can also prevent lumbar disc herniation. Perhaps most people in life don't know, can you do sit-ups with lumbar disc herniation? In order to better understand such a disease, first of all, when patients suffer from lumbar disc herniation, the lumbar tissue is damaged and causes lumbar deformation. So can sit-ups be used to regulate this?

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Question about - Does doing sit-ups have any effect on lumbar disc herniation?

This is a question I saw recently. A fitness friend wanted to express that he suffered from lumbar disc herniation, but fitness inevitably involves exercising the waist and abdominal muscles, so doing sit-ups is inevitable. Therefore, this friend wants to know whether doing sit-ups has any effect on lumbar disc herniation, is it good or bad?

Analysis of Lumbar Disc Herniation

After clarifying the problem, let us first understand what lumbar disc herniation is. Lumbar disc herniation is caused by the external pressure on the various parts of the lumbar disc, which causes the fibrous ring of the disc to be damaged, resulting in stimulation or compression of the adjacent spinal nerves, causing the patient to experience lower back pain. Severe lumbar disc herniation can cause a series of symptoms such as numbness, tingling, and pain in the lower limbs. It can be seen that lumbar disc herniation is still very painful.

Does sit-ups have any effect on lumbar disc herniation?

Causes of lumbar disc herniation

In fact, many patients with lumbar disc herniation are not born with the disease, but acquired. The main causes of lumbar disc herniation are poor daily sitting posture, long-term sitting, bending over and carrying heavy loads, etc. Of course, lumbar disc herniation is not caused by one or two times of poor sitting posture, sitting for a long time, bending over, etc., but is caused by bad living habits accumulated over time. Therefore, to say goodbye to lumbar disc herniation, you must start with your daily living habits and try to reduce the pressure on the lumbar spine in daily life.

Analysis of sit-ups

Back to the topic, let’s take a look at sit-ups. Sit-ups are mainly for exercising the abdominal muscles, which everyone who does fitness knows. The correct sit-up technique will use the buttocks muscles, abdominal muscles, waist muscles, etc., so the body needs to arch the back during the exercise. The result of arching the back is pressure on the spine, of course, including the lumbar spine.

Maybe many people in life are still worried about whether they can do sit-ups if they have lumbar disc herniation? First of all, we need to understand what causes lumbar disc herniation and what symptoms it will cause? What impact will sit-ups have on the body? If you are in the early stage of lumbar disc herniation, you can appropriately exercise your waist muscles through sit-ups.