What exercises can expand the spinal canal?

The spine is the most important standard skeleton of any vertebrate, including humans. The spine is the basis for maintaining people's basic shape. If there is a problem with the spine, it will lead to serious changes in people's body shape and even health. For example, spinal stenosis is a common disease that can cause patients to suffer from various neurological diseases and seriously affect the body's coordination. Spinal stenosis can be appropriately expanded with the help of exercise. Let’s take a look at which exercises can expand the spinal canal.

1. Knee hug and waist rolling exercise :

This therapy is designed based on the fact that bending over can expand the spinal canal and quickly relieve pain in LSS patients.

After walking dozens to hundreds of meters, these patients have to squat or sit down to rest for a while before they can walk again. However, they have no pain when riding a bicycle and can often ride ten miles, but they can hardly walk an inch. Because squatting, sitting and riding a bicycle all require bending over, the diameter of the spinal canal is slightly larger than when the back is straight, which reduces or relieves the pressure on the nerves and blood vessels. Based on this principle, this exercise therapy is used.

The patient lies on his back on a hard mattress, fully flexes his hips and knees, holds his calves tightly with both hands, flexes the whole body into a hemispherical shape, and uses the waist and back as a fulcrum to rock back and forth, repeatedly for 1 to 3 minutes, 1 to 2 times a day, until the pain disappears and the patient feels comfortable after the exercise.

This method can immediately expand the spinal canal, reduce or alleviate the compression on nerves and blood vessels, immediately restore blood flow, eliminate blood stasis, and clear out the pain-causing metabolites and inflammatory mediators accumulated in the nerve roots, thereby quickly relieving pain.

2. Traditional Chinese medicine internal and external treatment :

The various bioalkalis such as strychnine contained in the processed Strychnos nux vomica in the prescription can selectively excite the spinal cord, improve the weak state of skeletal muscles, and help adjust unbalanced vertebrae and restore the nucleus pulposus. At the same time, magnetic patches with significant effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, softening and dispersing nodules can be applied externally on the lumbar vertebrae and related acupuncture points to relieve soft tissue spasms, soften and atrophy fibrous tissues such as protruding intervertebral discs and hypertrophic yellow ligaments. The reduction rate of protruding intervertebral discs is as high as 98.35%. The synergy of these drugs can relieve the pressure on nerves and blood vessels, and symptoms such as pain will be eliminated as long as one or several stenosis factors are eliminated.