How to Know You Have a Hernia: Anyone Who Leads a Sedentary Life Should Know These 3 Symptoms

What is the difference? Being “mobile” by WHO standards is simple: 150 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise per week is enough. You don’t even have to go to the gym: just walk the dog regularly or get off the bus one stop early to get home at a brisk pace.

With a sedentary lifestyle, everything is more complicated: it is achieved by any person whose energy consumption for most of the day does not exceed one and a half metabolic equivalents – that is, the number of calories that the body expends during a state of rest. This is roughly how much you will spend if, for example, you work in front of a computer.

Checkmate: it turns out that even if a woman trains three times a week, but spends eight hours in the office, she leads a sedentary lifestyle. And it’s fraught with pitfalls: it’s harmful for core muscles to be passive most of the day, and they are when we’re sitting.

One of the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle is the appearance of hernias, when the gelatinous core of the disc between our vertebrae collapses, after which a bulging cyst with soft tissues forms. Most often, such injuries occur in people aged 20-50 years, and it is not so easy to notice them at the first stage.

As the doctor of medical sciences, orthopedic surgeon Shirvinda Wijesekera explains, it is impossible to diagnose a hernia only by pain – people very often come to the doctor with this symptom, and he does not always talk about a rupture of disk. According to the doctor, additional “red flags” indicate a hernia.

The fact is that the disc, “leaking” beyond the limits of the spine, puts pressure on the roots of the spinal cord and blood vessels. As a result, three additional symptoms appear:

If you understand that you have experienced these symptoms, consult a doctor – it can save you serious problems.