10 Surprising Things To Avoid With Herniated Disc & Sciatica

up is bad both mainly this physical exam I focus on Bob the short physical therapist Red Hynek physical therapy because we are the most famous physical therapist on the Internet in our opinion of course Bob you will be glad you came to see today Brad because we Let's talk on ten

surprising

things

to

avoid

when you have a

herniated

disc

or

sciatica

. Are you exactly surprised that we are going to argue? You know that's how it is. Yes, that's amazing. It's the first thing you want to do well. I want to

avoid

sitting for too long people don't realize that this injury or this type of problem is often a problem with sitting right now.

Let's understand exactly more that your back is in this somewhat rounded posture. I'll put in position C that Brad is going to demonstrate. Right now that's putting stress on the puck which is pushing it back, we've shown this many times in some of our other videos so you really want to avoid sitting when I hurt my back the only time Brad was in all my disk. Actually, it didn't really fit. He would stop me or put me down. No, I'm just here to show you. I know that when I got upset I grabbed a table that I could lift up to take my notes.

That's what I did, yeah, yeah. one of the cables that go to the bed and I lifted it up to the tray we're getting, that worked well for my night. I know I was interning at the time and taking my notes standing at my counter, without counters. man, okay, that again shows you all, especially you know, like a long fall from the car, yes, in fact, a friend of Mines Life has back problems, she can't fit into her computer job and he me He asks if I can get him one of the elevators. computer desk so you can stand while working on the character, so that's a good idea, yeah, okay, number two, a lot of people think okay, I have back pain, I'm going to do yoga, right, that will help me mm-hmm and there are a lot of the stretches in yoga that you can't do, I mean, they're good, right, I think some of the ones I have in my file, some of them are probably great for you, but I know it would take us It takes a long time to analyze what they are. bad, but obviously anyone who goes like this, I see pictures of people doing yoga and transitioning, that's probably going to make that album believe more or you know they do this one, whether they're like this, you know well.

That could be very bad for your back, so avoid yoga. Sorry yoga people, but yes, unless you're going to rule out the dos and don'ts, but we don't have time for that. Okay, if you have to sit, we want to make sure you're sitting with proper support, so you'll want to have some type of lumbar support, if you don't have one, all you have to do is roll up. a towel and Brad has his famous little tape over it or a little tape or whatever and it helps keep it in place so I always think we both sit in a firm, upright chair.

I like soft comfortable furniture that goes to promote that mop I have a soft culture or a superior chair that is going to kill you exactly so here we have that firm chair and I'm going to sit here and you will find that you will put that lumbar support right next to it from the belt line you will know because it will feel good if you may have to adjust it per individual and right now I can tell this is a little too big it is pushing on my back now you probably want more than one center what's up and in fact in my car that's fine that's better I have one of these and I have another two of these are taped together and it depends on the day sometimes I'll use one sometimes we'll put one with two in there sometimes I don't use it at all but I've been working my back for a long time.

I'm kind of tuned in, you know what, what do you know, what have we found, what have I found. The truth is that many people when they have a problem with a

herniated

disc

often want more towels and less when they do preventive measures, so they want less color, but that's what you can take. towel, you can roll it up as big as you want and try it and see what helps you, maybe you have two sizes in your car exactly now, if you are in occult, you have to sit on a couch, take a cushion or something behind you, everything behind you, yeah, one of those recliners or whatever, make sure you have it, you know, like I said, a cushion because you're really going to think differently, okay, very good, Brad, by the way, a lot of people it's new. to our channel, you are welcome if it's your first time, we want to make sure you take a minute to subscribe please, because we upload a video every day and they are all here designed to help you stay fit and healthy. and without pain, yes, some little tricks like this can go a long way, okay?

Number five, another one for Brad, isn't it really about avoiding bending and twisting if you want to hurt your back? If you want to get it, this is what you do, you bend it and you twist it sure and when you make that bread a lot of times when you're shoveling yeah, when you shovel like that now I'm bent and then I throw it here, I'm twisting it, you know, and then I add some wet heavy snow on that right and you've got your, you've got it now, it's going to hurt, so number five, Brad, crunches, full crunches, this is going to put your back in that position again and you know, I thought all the people knew it.

This, but I still see instructors on the Internet who sometimes even do the right thing, so they do full sit-ups. This is terribly hard on your back, puts a lot of strain on your neck, and makes

things

worse. I'll be ready for the twist and now we're like I'm bent over with my back to the shirt right there doing that, you know, it's a wool, no, no, but yeah, there's a lot of options for doing crunches, I mean, that works with the stomach. The mouth guard ruins it but it really puts a lot of stress on the bar and so do things like this and they work this way, yes actually there's a video later on some of that but we have others too, okay, continue. here at number six this is a little dark, but if you're riding a lawnmower, a lot of people are in kind of a bad posture when they're on it and there's a shock absorber, so you're putting a lot of stress on the drive while doing that, so I'm not a big fan of rear belts, but if you're riding a lawnmower, you've got a bumpy length.

I think it would be a good idea to I know it's going to ensure you have a variety, yeah, if you need to do that, actually you'd probably better want to push more, maybe buddy, just in acres, we get a lot of questions. I have read a lot, yes, we receive. I also have a lot of questions about whether or not I can wait to get up. You know, when you have a herniated disc, I just don't think you can do it. I mean, you can do something, maybe you could bench press, sure, yeah, maybe you can do it. curls, but you certainly can't do, you can't do squats.

I mean, if you're doing a squad and you lean like that, even if you keep your back straight, you're putting a lot of stress on it. in that, it's not worth it, it's definitely not dead weight, true and definitely not. I really don't want you to ever do it in bent over rows. I know I see people do that a lot, so the things we could talk about, the things we could call disco, they don't do it. It goes on and on Brad, okay, sleep says one thing to avoid sleeping is I don't want you sleeping in a flexed posture all night, Reverend, so I don't want you lying on your side, where's my microphone? and lying like this all night, you know, today and putting your back in those movies, now there's just not a lot of stress on your back in this position, right, but it's not like that, it's better to be a little straighter here, one of those really strong girls.

Men have wide shoulders, I mean you can't angle your back like this too, and that's why we recommend quite often that you can take a sheet. We also have something premade here, but you put the sheet on a roll. I'm going to spin it like this. I'm a little rude right now Brad okay some people actually tie a sheet around themselves and then when they lie on their side they have some support here and they don't sink here and when they lie on their back they have some support and they keep the arch there, it's that hollow point created by the pelvis right here, the back will sit right there, where you have to fill it in to straighten it out and neutralize it. spine, good demo bed on this pre-made product: you want to go with Alan Bret McKenzie right, you have to send McKenzie the sleeping roll, they call him and I can just sleep or you put it over here.

This would be for a smaller person. in the but you tie it, you tie it here and if it was like that, if it had the right side, it would come like this here and then it would protect the back and it would also support the back, I should say, let's show Brad a little trick to sleep with you, God. I thought you were going to do a magic trick, oh yeah, filling me up. I'm going to make Brad disappear. In fact, I will make you disappear. So what you're going to do is get on their good side. so let's say my pains go down my leg here.

I'm going to lie on my good side, which is this side. I'll lie down on my right side and then up, yeah, put the two pillows here, Bob, okay, one pillow pillow under you. like this with your leg bent and believe it or not, sometimes that helps arch your back a little bit on this side and helps relieve the stress of leg pain, but he would have pillows, oh my gosh, he had pillows here too , Yeah. I actually had a patient last year that I did this to and she was just happy, it's like, oh, that feels like it.

Now many people have trouble finding a correct sleeping position at night. I know a lot of people tend to sleep like this. the recliner when they have it back there I don't know why it helps I'd rather you not do it right because you're sitting in that position Flex, maybe someone has stenosis and thinks it's a disc, you know? maybe then it would help exactly, okay, avoid bending over for a long time. You really don't want to do any task where you're doing like this variation here and actually bending over slightly, like brushing your back, that's going to cause a lot of back pain. so make sure you're upright, luckily a lot of people already know this because they get punished when they do it, but if you're something I know that's a sign that you have to bend over, grab something to hold on to because it takes the stress off your bare right, even I say like for people who don't have back pain and are going to bend a little bit just to put their elbows on their knees like this, in case you take a little bit of stress off your forehand, obviously if you have the flexibility and are strong enough , you know if you can kneel and maintain that level, but there are a lot of people with knee pain, that's not an option, you don't know, it makes it difficult, so okay, the last thing we do.

I want to mention that Brad vacuuming, especially the wrong way, is very difficult because this is what a lot of people do on my vacuum cleaner. Brad is a good vacuum cleaner, so they do this, they bunch up and move, they don't move their legs at all. They're just bending and twisting throughout each other's work to get under their chair, so instead what they should do is dance with the vacuum cleaner, their leg every time the vacuum moves, their leg moves. moves and, in fact, walk with it. that haven't made it to the playoffs yet, yeah, there's your falcon, you can waltz while you suck better, but you want one, you get one of those little room bugs or whatever, those old circle backs that go up, yeah , like a little robot.

Yes, yes, you don't have to dub it alone, okay, that's number 10, thanks for watching, we don't have to make you suffer anymore listening to Petra, your thing is over.