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How to Workout with a Hernia
“You have a herniated lumbar disc,” your doctor says, and shows you a picture of an MRI. Well, that explains the symptoms you’ve been feeling from the sharp back pain, the pain along your sciatic nerve, and the numbness/tingling.
The treatment: surgery (if it is your LAST option and bothers you enough).
Although you may not be enthusiastic about going under the knife, you don’t want to keep experiencing the symptoms of it, either.
So you give yourself a deadline: “let me see if I can improve this with exercise in X number of months, and if I can’t, then I’ll get the surgery.” Smart decision!
Unfortunately, if you’ve looked online, you probably have not seen many reliable resources on how to exercise if you have a lumbar hernia.
Fortunately for you, I can provide some useful starting points.
And if you don’t have a hernia, but know someone who does, forward this to them, because it can help them relieve their pain, and recover from surgery quicker (if they decide to have it).
What is a hernia?
The general term “hernia” means protrusion. Some part of your body is protruding through some other part of your body. A hiatal hernia is when your stomach is protruding through your diaphragm. An umbilical hernia is…
