The Right Swimming Stroke for Lumber Spine Injury Individual
All the lumbar injured patients are requested to do more swimming to strengthen their lumbar muscles. However, the doctors are not informed or teach the patient the right swimming stroke for the strengthening exercises.
I as the certified Lifeguard swimming instructor, swimming coach and also the patient who suffer the lumbar spine injury, to share you the right way to swim in the process strengthening the lumbar muscles.
All patient that injured lumbar in chronic stage should avoid performing kicking during the swimming process. And this means the patient is only allowed to swim with both hands, however, the stroke is front crawl pulling (in other words, freestyle swim but without the kicking legs).
Patient should have one Clamp board slideboard Freestyle swimming training float board to support the legs while performing the front crawl pulling. By consistently performing the front crawl, the upper body will move forward and drag the legs during the swimming. This will provide continuous decompression on the spine's disc which will relieve the pain on the injury and at the same time strengthen the core muscles on the abs and lumbar mucles.
Patient should only focus on strengthening the muscles of upper body through the front crawl pulling. These will result in strengthening the body core muscles.
The question comes, why can't swim breaststroke? Some of the patients who doing breaststroke to strengthening the core muscles are end-up injure further and cause more pain? Why?
When swimming with breaststroke, the body will have multiple intervals compressing on the spine especially the patient surface up to take the breath. Therefore, the compression from the breaststroke will incur unwanted pressure on the spine's disc and cause further damage.
