Allowing hips to sag during side planks can cause pain or aggravation, especially with disc bulges or nerve root impingement. — Whalespan
Allowing hips to sag during side planks can cause pain or aggravation, especially with disc bulges or nerve root impingement.
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“the most common mistake was side planks is letting the hips sag so if you don't push the floor away from you enough if you're not stable enough through the foot contact with the floor or the leg contact with the floor if you're doing these with knees bent even if you go to leg straight and you consider yourself very very strong in the side plank if the hips start to Sag you can imagine based on what you now know about back Anatomy right the spinal cord being this um kind of snake like extension out the back of the brain with the vertebrae as segments and the discs in between them if that's sagging well especially if you have an issue with a disc bulge and some impingment on one of those nerve Roots either coming into or out of the spinal cord you're going to get into some trouble meaning it's going to cause some pain or at least some aggravation”
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