Weight Loss

In addition to gaining health through exercise and strength in your muscles, losing weight can help you to take the pressure off of your already weakened spinal column do to the herniated disc.  If you can shed some weight, you can often improve your overall pain levels and improve your health as well.

If you are overweight, this is increasingly important for your overall fitness and for allowing your body to direct more attention to the injury.  In addition, you are removing some of the pressure that you have on your lower back while gaining muscle strength through exercising.

Any of these forms of exercise can help you with the pain of your herniated disc.  Although none of these movements can actually repair the damage on its own, you have learned that most people are able to overcome a herniated disc over time, but that there are few methods to relieve the pressure before then to heal the condition faster.  But, through exercising in these methods, you can over come much of the pain that you feel here.