What about backache after swimming?
Back pain after swimming may be lumbar muscle strain. In this case, try to swim as little as possible, pay attention to rest, start after the pain is over, and add a little moderate exercise every day. Local hot compress, massage and physical therapy have a good effect on rehabilitation.
In fact, some simple warm-up exercises before swimming can avoid back pain:
1. Turn your head forward, backward, left and right to stretch your neck muscles. Repeat 10 times.
2. Turn back with one arm around the shoulder, and then both arms around the shoulder at the same time.
3. Lift one arm, bend to the opposite side and stretch as far as possible. Repeat changing arms.
4. Sit on the ground with your legs together, straighten your body forward, touch your toes with your hands forward, hold and repeat.
5. One hand extends to the opposite shoulder through the back of the head, with the tip of the elbow pointing upward, and the other hand holds the elbow and pulls it to the opposite side. Switch arms. Say it again.
6. Sit on the ground with your legs apart, bend your body to one side, let your face rest on your knees, and repeat on the other side.
7. Straighten one leg forward, bend one leg backward, sit on the ground, stretch your torso forward, and then lean back. Repeat several times and change the other leg. At the same time, gently turn your ankle.
How is the back pain after swimming?
Swimming is a low-injury aerobic exercise. When you are in the swimming pool, because of the buoyancy of water to human body, the pressure on the spine and back muscles is obviously reduced, so compared with other forms of aerobic exercise such as running, swimming rarely causes damage to the spine structure.
The damage of swimming to lumbar spine is mainly concentrated in forward backstroke or butterfly stroke. When you try to stretch forward, you may overstretch the lumbar spine, and when you put your head out of the water for breath, you may overstretch the cervical spine and cause injury.
When swimming, reducing the head swing can relieve the pressure on the cervical spine, and learning the correct ventilation method is conducive to protecting the cervical spine. Freestyle reduces the stretching of the lumbar spine and is also a relatively healthy swimming style.
If swimming causes or aggravates the symptoms of neck or back pain in exercisers, can it be considered? Swimming pool physiotherapy? Exercise from one end of the swimming pool to the other, with the help of water buoyancy to reduce the pressure on the spine, can effectively improve the symptoms of low back pain.
Can swimming treat low back pain
Swimming can cure low back pain. But there are different strokes in swimming. Some strokes can relieve low back and leg pain, while others will aggravate the pain.
1, O-leg is not suitable for breaststroke.
Breaststroke is suitable for patients with low back and leg pain and cervical spondylosis. However, the leg movements of breaststroke often increase the burden of knee ligament and the friction of knee joint, and at the same time aggravate the deformity of O-leg. Therefore, patients with knee osteoarthritis and O-leg should try to avoid breaststroke when swimming.
2. Lumbar disc herniation is not suitable for butterfly stroke.
The body movement range of butterfly stroke is relatively large, and long-term butterfly stroke is easy to cause a chronic inflammation of shoulder soft tissue due to excessive use of shoulder. In addition, long-term stress on the lumbar lamina is also likely to cause compression fractures, so experts advise patients with low back and leg pain or lumbar disc herniation not to do butterfly swimming.
3. Cervical spondylosis is suitable for backstroke.
Because the neck is in a backward posture and the cervical facet joints are exercised during backstroke, it is more suitable for patients with cervical spondylosis to do backstroke. But backstroke requires high shoulder movements and leg strokes, so backstroke may bring? Swimming shoulder? 、? Swimming ankles? Sports injury disease.
Who are not suitable for swimming?
1. Patients with infectious skin diseases such as viral hepatitis, bacillary dysentery, pink eye, sexually transmitted diseases and tinea corporis are not allowed to take part in swimming.
2. People with tuberculosis, emphysema, nephritis, trachoma, acute conjunctivitis, corneal ulcer, high myopia and acute sinusitis should not swim.
3. People with severe heart disease, hypertension and mental disorder.
4. Epilepsy patients who are prone to convulsions should not swim.
Deaf people should not take part in swimming.