Sit-ups and ab crunches can be inefficient and harmful for back pain by exacerbating disc herniation. — Whalespan
Sit-ups and ab crunches can be inefficient and harmful for back pain by exacerbating disc herniation.
⚠ High risk
We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“turns out that if you have back pain and even if you don't that is probably the least efficient and perhaps even the worst thing that you can do for your back pain and if you think about the discs that sit between those vertebrae remember those soft tissue discs that allow for some mobility of the spine well if you Happ have a disc that's bulging even slightly that is it's herniating it's getting pushed out from between the vertebrae and it's impinging on a nerve and there's some pain if you are crunching you can imagine that's essentially bringing the vertebrae together in the front of that sandwich that is vertebra disc vertebrae and what it's going to do is it's going to have that disc bulge out even further it's going to herniate even further and impinge on those nerves even further”
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