Can hanging horizontal bar treat lumbar disc herniation? In the treatment of lumbar disc herniation, many patients will hear some doctors or patients say that hanging the horizontal bar can treat lumbar disc herniation. Let's take a look at the treatment of lumbar disc herniation by hanging horizontal bar.

Can hanging horizontal bar treat lumbar disc herniation? 1 Lumbar disc herniation refers to a series of clinical syndromes, such as low back pain, numbness, pain in one or both lower limbs, etc. caused by the compression of nerves by disc herniation. This is also one of the most common causes of low back and leg pain.

Lumbar traction is one of the many methods of treating lumbar disc herniation bone injury in TCM, which can be carried out by traction belt or electric bed. It has two functions: first, it can widen the lumbar intervertebral space, make the intervertebral disc shift or retract, and reduce the compression of the intervertebral disc on nerve roots; Secondly, it is conducive to the reduction and absorption of local inflammatory reactions, thus eliminating symptoms and signs.

The method of hanging horizontal bar is similar to lumbar traction (especially suitable for patients with bulging and protruding), and traction is formed by using the weight of the body below the waist. The tendency of the separation of the upper and lower vertebral bodies of the prominent intervertebral disc makes the empty space in the middle of the intervertebral disc form negative pressure, and the posterior longitudinal ligament and the anterior longitudinal ligament are pulled and strained, which forms compression on the intervertebral disc. These two forces can reduce the intervertebral disc and restore the nucleus pulposus, which is equivalent to simple lumbar traction therapy and increase the lumbar intervertebral space.

With a gentle swing, you can also exercise the muscle strength of the trunk.

If you swing gently for several times, you can relax and contract muscles, improve the function of back muscles, increase the flexibility of lumbar facet joints, relieve the condition of nerve compression and help to recover as soon as possible.

Because normal people's lumbar stability mainly depends on muscles, while patients with lumbar disc herniation have insufficient back muscles and quadriceps femoris muscles, and some even atrophy muscles, resulting in poor lumbar stability, unbalanced stress and weakened muscle strength.

Therefore, strengthening functional exercise in time, especially the training of waist core muscles, is helpful to promote rehabilitation. Hanging the horizontal bar is a simple and easy way to exercise self-function, from which many people benefit.

Hang the horizontal bar and do what you can.

People with good physical fitness and strong arm strength can do shoulder pull-ups or swing their feet off the ground for a few times, which is better. After hanging the horizontal bar, it is forbidden to jump directly to avoid gravity from the heel to the spine.

People with poor physical fitness and weak arm strength can also hang in the air for a while with their hands on one shoulder, or simply land on their feet, squat down with their arms apart, and rest for a while when their hands are tired. Every time 15-20, every day 1-2 times.

Pay attention to these points when hanging the horizontal bar.

First, different treatments for the same disease. All patients with lumbar disc herniation should be classified into types, conditions and constitutions. It can't be done overnight. For example, it is forbidden to hang the horizontal bar in the acute stage, which is not suitable for diagnosis of prolapse and free type.

Second, under the protection of family members, we should pay attention to the gradual movement from less to more, from simple to complex.

Thirdly, once the arm of some patients is lifted, the lumbar spine will feel some pain and discomfort, which is not suitable for choosing the method of hanging the horizontal bar.

Fourth, at the same time of treatment, it is necessary to take drugs such as Yaotongning to improve symptoms, or you can choose other functional exercise methods, such as swallow flying and arch bridge method, and the effect will be better.

Can hanging horizontal bar treat lumbar disc herniation? Fitness equipment can be seen everywhere, in almost every community and park. Although the fitness equipment varies from place to place, the horizontal bar is standard. The utilization rate of horizontal bar is also high. Some young people do pull-ups to exercise muscles, and some middle-aged and elderly people want to treat lumbar disc herniation and hang the horizontal bar.

Lumbar disc herniation generally refers to lumbar disc herniation. The correct way to treat lumbar disc herniation by hanging horizontal bar is to choose a horizontal bar that suits your height, neither too high nor too low. Hold the horizontal bar firmly with both hands, stand on tiptoe slightly, relax the waist and widen the lumbar spacing.

If it is not high enough, you can step on a bench under your feet. I suggest you hang for 3-5 minutes at a time, and you can hang 3-5 groups a day. The specific frequency can be determined according to your own situation. In addition, after hanging the horizontal bar, you can't jump directly, which is easy to damage the lumbar spine. You should step on a stool or slide down slowly with the help of a horizontal bar post.

1. Why is the lumbar intervertebral disc protruding?

Lumbar disc herniation is a series of clinical manifestations caused by degeneration of lumbar disc, which makes nucleus pulposus protrude, oppresses or stimulates nerve roots. It used to be mostly middle-aged and elderly people, but now the prevalence rate of young people is also increasing, mostly porters who need to bend over for a long time, athletes who are engaged in jumping sports and sedentary office workers. Disc herniation can also occur due to daily wrong posture, hunchback, long desk, overweight, and insufficient abdominal and back muscle strength.

2. Can patients with lumbar disc herniation hang the horizontal bar?

For convalescent patients, hanging horizontal bar exercise does have a certain effect, and its principle is similar to traction.

Traction is a physical therapy widely used in the treatment of low back pain, which has the functions of increasing intervertebral space, relieving lumbar muscle spasm, adjusting facet joint disorder, relieving adhesion between nerve and surrounding tissues, relieving inflammation and edema, changing the relative position of protrusion and nerve root, and improving and eliminating clinical symptoms.

Hanging the horizontal bar is a self-exercise method similar to the principle of lumbar traction. Hanging the horizontal bar can make the spine in the extended position, relax the paraspinal muscles and effectively reduce the pressure on the nucleus pulposus in the lumbar intervertebral disc.

So it has a certain effect on relieving low back pain, but there is no clear evidence that hanging horizontal bar can treat lumbar disc herniation. Moreover, patients operate by themselves, everyone's situation is different, and the amount of force is not standardized. Without formal traction, it may not be safe and effective.

3. What should patients with lumbar disc herniation pay attention to when hanging the horizontal bar?

There is no acute lumbar disc herniation. If the pain is not very serious at this time, it is beneficial to hang the horizontal bar for our disc herniation. It is emphasized here that if the acute low back pain is serious, you should stay in bed and don't do any exercise!

However, there are some actions that need everyone's attention when doing horizontal bar hanging exercises:

1, this horizontal bar should not be too high. When we hang the horizontal bar, we just stand on the ground and grab the horizontal bar. Don't choose a high horizontal bar, because it will aggravate the disc injury during jumping.

2. When we hang the horizontal bar, we hold the horizontal bar with our hands, with our legs slightly backward and our toes touching the ground, so that our waist stretches backwards. At the same time, our waist muscles must be relaxed and pulled back and forth.

3. It should be noted that the horizontal bar should do what it can, pay attention to time and intensity, and do warm-up exercises before training to prevent accidents such as falling.