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Avoid Sit-Ups and Crunches
Especially if you have back pain or posterior disc bulging/herniation, avoid sit-ups and abdominal crunches because they can worsen disc bulging, nerve impingement, and pain.
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“Turns out that if you have back pain, and even if you don't, that is probably the least efficient and perhaps even the worst thing that you can do for your back pain. If you are crunching, you can imagine that's essentially bringing the vertebrae together in the front of that sandwich that is vertebrae, disc, vertebrae.”
huberman · Protocols to Strengthen & Pain Proof Your Back · Apr 29, 2024 · 37:59 · open ↗
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