Avoiding exercises that exacerbate disc bulges, such as crunching, and performing spinal extensions can help reduce back pain.

“you want to absolutely avoid doing anything that exacerbates that disc bulge so in my case it meant avoiding doing any crunching because that would send the cream from between the two Oreo cookies further and further out impinging on the nerve more and more and more creating more and more pain rather to try and push things back by doing a spinal extension by doing creating an arch in the lower back by doing these essentially uh Cobra push-ups from the floor”