Dr. Greger, This video makes me wonder about osteoporosis in the lower
lumbar spine too.
Not exact matches
There's no need to go
too heavy with this as it can put a lot of stress on your
lumbar spine and puts you in an awkward position.
However, as you said, it's crucial to bent the knees and not overuse the abdominal wall, lest we cause
too much pressure on the SI and
lumbar spine.
However, I agree that it can easily be done unsafely even by healthy people — if they roll up with their legs straight and the pelvis in a posterior tilt, which would likely place
too much compression on the anterior aspect of the intervertebral discs in the
lumbar spine (as you illustrate above).
Avoiding putting
too much pressure on your
lumbar spine.