Pinched nerves can be extremely painful, and can limit the amount of exercise you do as a result.
However, doing plenty of exercise and moving around is key in keeping your body fit and healthy and has been proven to help treat the problem of pinched nerves, so you need to find exercises that you can do that can help you with the pain without causing further distress.
Aquasize, a relatively new and innovative way to exercise, provides the perfect answer for those who are running out of options.
What is pinched nerve?
Firstly, you must make sure that the pain you are suffering from is actually caused by a pinched nerve. If there is another reason for your pain, you must make sure with your doctor that it is safe to go exercising before you take up aquasize.
Pinched nerves can cause, in most cases, pain (ranging from slight to severe), weakness in a general area or even a numbness.
The pain does not always occur in the same area as the pinched nerve, so for people feeling a slight weakness in the arm, for instance, the problem may actually be in your upper back.
Pinched nerves can last for only a short period of time and can also last for quite a while, and everybody has different experiences.
Sometimes, the damage inflicted by a pinched nerve cannot be undone, so if you do think that you are suffering from a compressed nerve, see your doctor immediately to get it checked out.
If you are not suffering from a pinched nerve, after all, and you try to treat the symptoms with aquasize, then you can actually end up doing further damage to the underlying issue rather than helping it.
What causes pinched nerves?
There are a number of different causes of pinched nerves. Sometimes, they seem to occur for seemingly no reason: you may well have just moved awkwardly, even if you did not notice at the time.
The most common causes of pinched nerves, however, are repetitive movements and motions, which is why sports people can often suffer with pinched nerves.
If you sleep in a certain position, as well, this can cause nerves to become compressed, particularly if you do not sleep in a very healthy position and you remain like that for a long time or for a number of nights.
Why invest your time and effort in aquasize?
It is well known that swimming is wonderful exercise as it gets every muscle in your body to work hard and to move. It is thorough exercise, but also gentle, unlike running which can jolt your knees, ankles, hips and back. If you want to exercise gently but well, swimming is the best way for you.
Aquasize is the combination of swimming and other stretches that are often done during dance and pilates classes, for instance, so you are ensuring not only that every muscle in your body gets exercised, but also that it is properly stretched without having to worry about falling and hurting yourself further.
How can aquasize help your pinched nerves?
Since pinched nerves can cause a number of issues in your arms or legs, for instance, exercising your body as a whole in order to treat the problem is important.
One pinched nerve in your lower back can mean problems and pain when walking, sitting or lying down, and you can end up feeling pain all down your legs and up your back, even though the problem is isolated to a single spot on your back.
Since aquasize does not just focus on exercising or stretching one single part of your body – whether that is your legs, your arms, your core or your back, for example – it can help treat the problem as a more holistic problem (which, of course, it is).
Most doctors do not realize how beneficial it can be to approach problems such as pinched nerves in this way, although chiropractors, physiotherapists and osteopaths will encourage you to try out things like aquasize as the perfect exercise for your pinched nerve.
In addition, pinched nerves can be extremely painful, which means that any exercise or movement that you do can leave you in a great deal of pain.
Aquasize is a lot more gentle than any other sport you can try to help get you up and moving, and is much less likely to cause you further pain than, for instance, jobbing or doing aerobics.
Get help with your aquasize exercises
There are plenty of different aquasize exercises out there that will benefit those suffering from pinched nerves. You could attend a class and get help with the exercises that you need to do there, but there will be other people and you are less likely to get one on one help with your problems.
It is a good idea, therefore, to ask your doctor for a list of exercises and stretches that you might be able to do to help ease the pain that is caused by your pinched nerve. They will know exactly what sort of exercises will avoid causing you further pain and will help with the problem.
Also ask physiotherapists, chiropractors and osteopaths for aquasize exercises, since they treat the body as a whole (rather than just treating one problem like doctors tend to do).
The exercises that these professionals give you will be more aimed at treating the underlying problem (i.e. the reason that you ended up pinching a nerve in the first place, whether it is because you have weakness in your upper or lower back or whether it is because you sleep in a certain way) as well as the pains that you are experiencing as a result.
It is important to take any and all advice that health care professionals can offer you, since you will not know the best aquasize exercises to do that will keep you fit and healthy as well as tackling the root of your pinched nerve pain problem.
Further reading:
http://physioworks.com.au/injuries-conditions-1/pinched_nerve
http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/guide/compressed-nerves
