In daily life, many people carry out backward movements. Backward walking is called regress walking, backward walking, which belongs to a kind of reverse order movement.
Especially for some middle-aged and elderly people, many people especially like to walk backwards. Is it true that this kind of exercise can not only exercise the body, achieve the role of health care, but also have the effect of treating lumbar disc herniation?
Can walking backwards treat lumbar disc herniation?
It is safe to say that walking backwards does not play a role in treating lumbar discs. Walking backwards is just a way of exercising, for people with lumbar disc herniation or other lumbar spine diseases, appropriate exercise can alleviate some discomfort symptoms.
For example, for people with lumbar discs, there will be repeated low back pain in daily life. Then the appropriate inverted walking exercise can indeed play a role in reducing pain.
In addition, for the middle-aged and elderly people with herniated discs, it is easy to have spinal curvature. Then, properly carry out some backward walking movements every day, which can make the center of gravity of the spine move backwards, which can play a role in correcting the hunchback.
"Walk backwards" need to pay attention to these points!
1. Irregular movements aggravate the condition
It is worth noting that people with lumbar disc herniation will not only have low back pain, but also some leg discomfort. For example, there is numbness, weakness, and stiffness in the legs, and there may be symptoms such as muscle atrophy and sciatica.
Once these symptoms occur, the patient is likely to cause irregular movements when performing the reversal. For example, gait instability, or knee joint is not flexible enough. In this way, it will make the pelvis lean forward, increase the burden on the waist and legs, aggravate the patient's low back pain, leg pain and other problems, and play no role in alleviating.
2, it is very easy to cause falls
There are many middle-aged and elderly people in the backward walking exercise, due to the wrong choice of shoes, uneven ground, and coupled with the legs will appear numb, weak feeling, resulting in the knee joint is not flexible enough when walking backwards, making the center of gravity unstable. It is easy to fall down when walking backwards, or to break your feet and twist your waist.
Once these problems occur, they will not play any role in alleviating the symptoms of lumbar discs, and will also lead to a series of aggravation of symptoms, and even cause some other joint problems.
3. Appropriate rest is required during the treatment period
There are also some middle-aged and elderly people with lumbar disc herniation, and during the treatment period, they will insist on walking backwards every day, thinking that they can play a role in accelerating the healing of the disease. But in fact, during the treatment of the disease, such people must rest properly.
For example, patients in the acute phase need to stay in bed for three weeks, which can relieve symptoms such as nerve compression. Once the daily backward movement is carried out, it will not only affect the treatment effect, but also aggravate a series of nerve compression symptoms.
All in all, walking backwards can relieve low back pain and correct hunchback, but it does not play a role in treating lumbar disc herniation. And for patients with lumbar disc herniation, if they are in an acute attack period, bed rest is required.
If it is a stable period and a recovery period, then you can do a small amount of walking and other exercises every day under the guidance of a doctor. Be sure not to walk backwards and other exercises indiscriminately, otherwise it will affect the treatment of the disease and some other problems.