Hello guys
I have a spinal disc herniation, and I'm looking for some exercises to start strengthening my back muscles in order to, eventually, heal the hernia and reabsorb the substance
The hernia is located in my lower back, in the L5-S1 disc
When it comes to the symptoms, I'm fairly ok. I've been living with this for like, 5 months now. Many days I don't have any symptoms at all. Every now and then I get like, tiny nuisance pains. But the thing is, because of this I can't do any physical activity at all, because when I do, that's when it hurts the next day
I went to many doctors. One of 'em almost jumped out of his chair with the "let's go to surgery!" proposal. My pain is far, VERY far to the point to even think about surgery.
Other one suggested I do a few physiotherapy sessions. I did, went to ten, didn't change anything
Another one suggested: "just wait a couple of months, it'll be ok"
Other one told me to do some specific exercises, I think the discipline is called neurodynamics or something like that (at least where I live, I'm from a native spanish speaking country, I'm just translating the word); they didn't work either
The last one told me to try ozone therapy. I don't trust it. I'm not discarding it either, at least not yet, but I don't trust it
I've been reading about the whole spinal disc herniation for a few months by now, and asking a few people about their own experiencies with this issue (people who has been in a similar situation as mine), or about acquaintances of them who also had a similar issue
And I'm fully commited to try with some easy, slow and carefully planned back exercises in order to start strengthening my back muscles in order to, eventually, heal the hernia and reabsorb the substance (just copypasted that from the first paragraph). As far as I learnt, pilates exercises are the way. But I don't know what kind of exercises are the best for this situation
What do you guys say? Anyone can help me with that?
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