Best Exercise for L4-L5 Disc Bulge & L4-L5 Herniation- Includes Self Tests
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- Best Exercise for L4-L5 Disc Bulge & L4-L5 Herniation- Includes Self Tests
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Thank you bob and brad for your wonderful videos! As a 22 year old who recently got diagnosed with a herniated discs in the lumbar region (with sciatica) it’s been really devastating to feel pain everytime I stand, sit or sleep. I hope I can get better soon…
I recently recieved physical therapy for problems with the L5 disc, they never really said if it was bulging or herniated, but it would be very painful in the morning and eventually it became hard to sit or lay at night. Usually didn't feel much discomfort walking, but the left hip was being affected too. They decided that my hip and low back muscles had gotten too weak to support the disc when in a sitting or laying position. I think when it was not supported it would then irritate the nerve. Physical therapy alone did not help with the pain and what I found did was Meloxicam,(anti inflammatory) Cyclobenzaprine (muscle relaxer) and Tylenol for pain. I took these at night for several weeks before it got less painful. I gradually went off the muscle relaxer and then Tylenol. I feel like it was healing the nerve irritation. But, I'm sure the muscle strengthening in the hip, glutes and lower back helped as well.
I feel you! I also had mine at 26, I started to have a stable career which is so perfect then suddenly I got annular tear and herniated disc it's so depressing 😢
@@masqtranger107
I injured myself while skateboarding
now I stopped studying because of the pain while sitting
all my dreams are gone in a moment
@@mohamedfarrag4490 I too had a hard time sitting while trying to study, but it gets better if you follow the advice to get your herniated disc to heal. I have to take several breaks while studying, and also stand and study when I can. Don't give up, it WILL get better 🙏
@@denisehill1705 I hope you went to see a doctor for an xray or MRI to see if there are any changes to your disc. I made the mistake of going to chiropractors and a physical therapist who all gave me different diagnosis along with suggesting I keep working out to build core muscles. Well I was not healing until I saw a doctor who immediately said I could have an annular tear and herniated discs. He told me to stop working out and what moves not to do. It's been a month since seeing him, and am almost 100%. I just wish I would have gone to a doctor 6 months ago when I first got injured, I might have been filly healed by now
Thank you for being such generous and enthusiastic educators!
Hi am Canadian college football player who had to retire do to L5 .7cm herniated disk diagnosed via mri, I had horrible pain down the leg following the sciatic nerve and my foot was completely numb. Your videos have been helping me out for over a year now so plz keep doing the great work!
All better?
You 2 rock. I have had great results with the tips you have given us. I've gotten great results with all the exercises you've shared. I have totally changed my therapy exercises & am following you daily. I end my evenings going along with the 2 of you & doing my proper body mechanics. Can't THANK YOU enough.
Wow! Thanks I was just told by my MD that I had a bulging disc in my back. This is very timely. Thank you Bob and Brad, I really appreciate you both!!!!
Outstanding advice and so well delivered , well done guys.
One silver lining of this prolonged time at home is finding your videos. I am so grateful for all the expertise that you share, and I've told many others about your videos as well. THANK YOU!!!
Thank you very much I have been a nurse for 26 years and for the past two years I have been struggling but these exercises are real good help.
Thank you sharing Bob & Brad. Your video was so helpful for my condition.☘️
This is amazing. I have had chronic pain for the past two years due two herniated discs, and thought I was recovering quite well. During a workout I relapsed into severe pain and reduced mobility. I found you guys on TH-cam two days ago and I am amazed at how quickly the pain is being reduced by doing exactly what you show in the videos. You guys are rock star level physical therapists on the Internet, because this is rock star level guidance! Well explained and great illustration! I love the dynamic between the two of you 😂😊
Hello brother pls reply ... I hv dish herniation between l4 and l5 for the past 8 months. Sud i go for surgery or injection or medication. I took several medicines but it doesn't work for me. Pls suggest me
Another great video - I would love to see a video more specifically targeting thoracic herniations. I have three, and the press-ups have been helping a fair amount, but would love to get some more exercises to help!
Thanks from Ireland guys. Perfect sense without the heavy medical language. Keep it up!
Thank you so much for your excellent presentation. It is very helpful.
Very educative and helping. Thank you very much. Keep it up
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Fascinating. Yes, when we know more we know more about what to do and how to help ourselves if we can. You boys are a gift to humanity.
Very good, Ja, it’s really working. Thank you 😊
You two are solid gold! Thanks so much
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Its been 3 days since the herniated disc and I've stayed laying on my back in bed. No change. Just constant pain down my leg stopping at my knee.
The "prone press-ups start at 8:35 has made the pain in the leg dissappear after 3 sets of 6 for ten seconds. I cannot believe how instant the change was.
To Bob and Brad, thank you again. To anyone else with a herniated disc, this worked like magic for me!
I recently was diagnosed with a pinched nerve and herniated disc and I had serious back pain but no lower leg pain, Did your stretches from this video and other videos and so far a week after I feel normal, except for a few times when I feel that the pain might come back but I do the exercises again and I am all good. Love you guys and what you do!!
Recently just 3 weeks ago i diagnosed with herniation between l4 and l5. No leg pain.only lower back pain... What shall i do brother..sud i go for surgery or ?
I love these guys! Their chanel is so helpful thank you🤗
Thank you Brad and Bob, for all the valuable information,you to are the only ones who mentioned of pain in the front of the leg, everyone else always talks about the back of the leg hurting,but that's a false statement for sure.Thank you for these videos,your exscersises really help.🙏
Perfect video👌🏻 Thank you🙏🏼
I just learned more in this presentation than I have from going to many other treatments the past 7 years. THANK YOU!
Holy crap u musta been going to a fake dr or scammer or something thats insane
I actually am amazed how you guys have videos about everything.
Have the L5 fracture...and mutt two big toes became numb around the same time. Now I know why. Thanks B&B!💓
Bob and Brad best vids on the int/net.
Thank you so much for all you do both
This was very educational. Thank you
I’ll try these, thanks guys.
I just need this!! Thanks💝
Excellent video. Informative and well spoken. You have answered so many of my questions and brought hope for recovery!
Thanks again guys!
hell yea brah, I've been looking for an exercise to isolate one side of my spine, instead of just the central unit
thank you!
You have given me better help than many “DRs.”
Thank you for these valuable informations. I'm 25 years old now and i've realized that i have a bulge on my lower back at the age of 23. I kept on searching and i learned that it's L5 herniation/ herniated disc. These videos are very helpful. I started exercising today. We'll see that my body heals :) 'Cause i don't want this little problem to get bigger
Did it get better for you?
I'm 29 and work in underground mining I'm 6'7 but always had back pain found out the same couple years back and I let it get bad. Been about 5 months now none stop throbbing pain shooting down my back to my right leg, numb foot and calf. Missed a month of work too. Fix it now for the love of God 🤣
Ever heal up?
For solution in slip disc
Do watch this
th-cam.com/video/ikrUNUjDS8A/w-d-xo.html
@@mat5015 How are you now brother
You guys are great at explaining stuff! 👍🏼👍🏼
Ty for all your videos
You guys are great......the therapists I've been to torture me rather than help me. You fellas make sense and give me a lot of variations.
u guys r just great, tq for helping me out
This helps alot!
Thank you for your informative and easy-to-understand presentation! I don't know how come I haven't discovered your channel earlier! Though it hurt when you said "it is part of the aging process" haha! Love from Palestine :)
I really appreciated the demonstration with the skeleton. I always wondered why my pain radiated into my hip.
Same, the pain is in my hip now
Super guys
U made my day for telling these tips 🤩🤩
Thank you.
Thanks for introducing me to the "micro press-ups and "road kill." Thanks Bob. I hope you feel better.
I am glad I found you guys. I have Osteoarthritis, I am only 37 and was diagnosed when I was 33 but suffered from pain since I was 25 or younger. Recently my back went out, and for a week I’ve been barely 😰 able to walk. My chiropractor said I will be able to function real soon. He sent these exercises home… so in finding your page 📄 I am thankful to try these exercises.
My MD just told me I have herniated disk L4 L5. Also have issue with L5 S1 with hamstring pain.. Thank you so much for the vdo.
Good information. Fits me exactly. I have a left drop foot and occasional pain in my right thigh when I exercise. Should I cut out my rebounding if I keep feeling pain in my right thigh?
My back pain was so intense THANKYOU
Great info
Thank you very much
You guys know what your doing for sure
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Bob
Fantastic video
Was diagnosed with the L4/L5 bulge after a CT scan, I don't have any pain down the leg, but I do have constant tingling in my foot. My back is very sore though and walking is incredibly difficult, I work in an office too so sitting is difficult. Doctors recommended I have an Epidural Injection via CT but I want to try do some therapy first.
Going to start this journey with these exercises. Thanks!
I got the same problem
thanks guys....very clear...hope it helps...im in severe pain...
Thanks for the hard work. Absolutely love your videos, I have back problems. Issues with L4, L5 and S1. Due to lockdown it got worse and now I am even facing erection issues. I'm 10 kilos over weight and my muscles are very weak. Would love your help.
Press up got the pain out of foot into my butt and now it’s centralized in the back in about 60hrs you are amazing god bless you I’m 28 and had 2 months of my life ruined had to quit my job and told by my doctor surgery is the best option I can’t thank you enough
Did you manage to get rid of the central back pain?
@@ThonColinFilms it comes and goes usually after sitting for a long time but press ups always takes always the pain
You are both the best
I wanna be a positive message, as I struggle with l4 l5 s1, I'm 27 years old and it took me almost 10 years to understand why I had lower back pain, no matter how old or how much pain please be patient with yourselves, I had to quit my job, I'm now doing at home PT with the help of pain pills, thank you Bob and Brad for these videos, let's always be hopeful
Thank you Brad for addressing the cool sensation I'm experiencing on my outside calf area. No one has ever mentioned it before. My physicians don't understand where it's coming from. But, I'm also dealing with inflammation in my leg. I have no pain. I'm also dealing with mold/moderate spinal stenosis. Again, no pain. Thank God.
What was it?
@@111himanshurana9
Sciatica caused by spinal stenosis. The cool sensation (nerve) is just a symptom of that.
@@annetterios8789 thank you for answering this :)
@@monkieassasin
You're welcome 😊
You're blessed not to be having any pain.🙏
Thank you
Great video and instructions, many thanks. I was wondering how to check if my spine is straight ( not the line (call it the Y axis) thru head, back and buttock) but in the other plane, the X axis. The issue that Bob found out when playing golf.
Thank you guys, I live in California. I am self-employed and I don’t have health insurance. I know, for a fact, I have L4 L5 injury just based upon watching this video I have not seen a doctor, but these exercises are helping with the pain…..
Heat pad works and Tylenol. The pain just started six moths ago. Lifting with a gate belt. I’m a caregiver. Roll on aspercreme feels good with massage also. Sleeping with pillows under my left leg and propping my head up higher.
I hurt my back, disk between L4 and L5 on my right side, when I was practicing golf. Basically I pushed myself too far and caused the injury. I have pain in my second and third toe on my right foot and it feels like it's on fire. When I stretch by doing a couple of yoga poses, the child and the chair pose but keeping my legs straight and reaching my hands as high as they will go, this helps. In addition I stretch my hamstrings by bending over and touching my toes. These seem to help and the reoccurance of the pain and discomfort can go away for days and up to a week or more. I'll try the exercises you showed in the video but I'm not so sure this is really going away.
This was a gr8 video
Thank you so much for your video full of enthusiasm! It's very reassuring for me since I've experienced the most severe back pain in my life last week. I got the MRI results and I have herniated L4-L5, L5-S1. Now I know much more about it!
May I know what they wrote on the MRI report? Haha because I got my results and they suspected herniated disc but I can only meet my doctor at November and I don’t understand my MRI report
@@shaamelan3084 sure! they wrote just like that - "herniated disks L4-L5 etc" and described the pathological changes caused by hernias.
@@ekaterinaboichenko6187 omg thank you!! But did they say diffuse disc bulge?
@@shaamelan3084 no, they wrote about the dorsal hernias directly, also they mentioned low hydrophilicity of those discs and the sizes of the hernias (up to 5 mm)
@@ekaterinaboichenko6187 oh ok thank you!!
Is there a basic list of good standard stretch/strengthening exercises to perform daily to stave off injury? Seems like every time I get my workout on track I get an injury of some kind and have to slow back down. Would be great to have basics to do that might help prevent some of these before hand. I am currently waking and trying to get back to running after a several year hiatus Mahalo
Thank you for all the support you guys provide. Do you recommend using a back stretcher device? One of those hard plastic adjustable things that are supposed to help decompress the spine. I have L4/L5 disc herniation. Waiting for your reply. Thanks!
For solution in slip disc
Do watch this
th-cam.com/video/ikrUNUjDS8A/w-d-xo.html
Get a traction device
You guys give such hope
Ooohmygawsh! Had a botched hip replacement; awaiting a revision and in the interim since I’m unable to use legs to squat and pick things up
I bend all the way over keeping legs straight and bulging disc pain definitely has been exacerbated since this compensation. Well so have all adjoining body parts. Heck no. Or I’ll try to have my reacher with me more. Had no idea. And I’m an RN. Thank you!
Hello, great video, I have L4 L5 central protrusion. I am having symptoms in both legs. Please guide .
I am 23, starting to have some spine issues (lumber area ache) for last few months starting from an injury I got in sports.
Got an MRI recently and it's an annular tear & disc bulge at L4-L5 level.
Its crucial for my life that I manage this well especially considering the career I have opted for.
Ouch, yeah this hit me in my 30s and now in my 40's it's severe. Take care of it however you need to.
I'm 21 and found out i have annular tear and disc bulge at L4-L5 level ..juz want to know how are you now?how do u get to manage the pain and can u pls tell me about ur recovery process? I'm so depressed felt like I'm struck
This is very common as MRI can detect very small tears
Your video about how to get out of bed with sciatica was so helpful. Thank you. It’s too painful to get onto my stomach. Pain is from left hip down to my left knee. CAT scan showed bulges at L4-L5 ;and other places). Is there anything I can do to help me get onto my stomach?
hey there!! i love you guys! Doesnt L4 dermatome run down ant thigh and knee and then creep towards the medial mellelous? (rather than center of ankle as you guys showed?) Lmk :) thanks so much!
What exercises best for low back pain no sciatica pain?
Thank you so much ! I prolapsed my L4L5S1 disc’s and that was last august( 2019) MRI said I had a 5 mil tear in one and a sm lesion on the other. Anyways you video and exercises along with my Physiotherapist I have only slight pain sometimes and I can remedy this right away with your exercises . Only problem I am having is my opposite buttock is very painful to sit. Do you have a exercise for this?
I do not require any meds since December and I say that is because of your excellent videos
Thank you 🙏
Hi got the same from an injury... want to know how are you now!!
Are the prone press ups safe to do if you have a fusion in T12-L2?
I had sciatica. Watching your video so i can go back to working out again.
Man two rounds of injections and a year of pain with this damn back. Trying the exercises thx
Thank you my pain is going lil bet everyday
You are both amazing! You have helped me so much with my back injury. Recovering from a L5 S1 disk bulged 👍🙂
How are you now?
@@ttttt9065 Hi ! Doing a lot better. Thanks for asking. I do still get ocasional flare ups but not very often. I sure I’m on the right road to recovery. Maybe not a 100% but at least I’m at 80 % You just need to eat a healthy diet and stretching is key , I feel that the press ups I learned helped me a lot . They are also called cobra press ups . I wish you a speedy recovery. Stay positive and don’t give up!! 👍🙂🙌
What type of exercises can you do for degenerative arthritis in L3, through S1. My pain is in the sacrum and pain in the outside side of my calves and effects my bladder only in the morning.
Please, do a video for L3 exercises.
2 million subscribers! I have beem following you guys since you had like 65k lol
Nice video...
One thing i want to n know, If L4-L5 disc bulge, can this indicate that L5 nerve impingement ?
Can u clear that...
yes..i dont feel anything from my back but down to my foot is burning, numb and tingling..or tightened.
Thanks for the video Bob and Brad, it should help with annual tear as well right? I have one question do you have any video how to correct disbalances? I was told that cause of my back pain (annual tear l34 l45) is the way I walk, one hip is higher than other during walk. I'm sorry if I missed that video in your playlist. Anyway thank you :)
Omg I am so sorry, I didn't check recent videos! Disregard my hip video question please! Thank you so much :)
Thank you! About the posture part at the end - what if you have knee problems at the same time? :) So you have to spare your knees as well as your lower back...
Dr. I was just told my L-4 is bulged and I do have numbness running down my left from leg. I have burning and tingling. I have a 360 back fusion on L5-S1 can I do these exercises.
I was watching TH-cam doing my stretches...then this showed up. Dealing with L4L5 and L5S1 bulges with annular tears for 5 years
Me too, almost exactly the same spot and time frame. Have you find any relief?
@@isaacjmay hi there how are you now? u had/have pins and needles in legs? and foot pain? i have L4/L5 disc bulge
@@nykko73 Doing much better, I'm basically fully activate now and back to exercising. I did not get surgery. I did have the pin and needles and numbness on my left left down to my big toe. Other than seeing a good chiro and deep tissue massage around my hips and back, the BIGGEST help long term has been constant core work (i can finally feel and see my lumbar muscles) and staying moving. Planks are essential, i do laced fingers, elbows out for 2 minutes twice a day plus all the stretches and other core stuff, no sit-ups ever. I did just drive across country for 4 days but other than I stay moving throughout the day.
What a sweet pair. Just got my MRI results and turns out i have discuss prolapse in my l4l5😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Can I do these exercises if I just have back pain and it doesn’t go down my leg?
Hi Bob and Brad the problem I’ve got is a pain in my left buttock so much so that I have to use sticks to get about also pains down my hamstring and the outside of my lower leg is numb , it’s been like this for 6 weeks now I’m waiting for an MRI scan as the last time I had one about 3 years ago there was a slight bulge in the L4 . Although I’ve had no pain in my lower back it’s mainly around the left buttock which is so painful. I’m trying the exercises on your channel and sometimes they help and the next time I try I cannot do them . Any advise would be greatly appreciated, I’m taking tramadol and diazepam which does not do much for the pain regards Andy
I was diagnosed with herniated L4-L5 With sciatica. I love the gym. Do I have to stop my normal weightlifting routine because of this problem? I don't want to end up in a wheelchair?
The opening song is so cute and makes me rock & roll😂
Got this between L3 and L4, right leg became numb and could not take my weight with a lot of pain. Went through laminectomy and decompression of nerve. It's been 2 years now but still some stiffness and pain in back is felt. Any remedies for that? Hope it will not happen again?
Bob & Brad. what if i can do the exercises but i had a lot of pain and difficulty getting out of bed?
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