Cobra Pose For Beginners – Effective stretch for low back pain & herniated discs

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How to do Cobra Pose for beginners and the benefits of doing this exercise. It is one of the best exercises you can do for your low back pain and herniated discs and bulging discs. In this video I explain why it is so good for your back pain, as well as demo it in detail.

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  1. Personally my back hurts just laying flat on my stomach, let alone trying to flex it upwards and rest on my elbows. I would like to do other exercises that are easier for me so I can work up to this.

  2. It doesn't seem to stretch my back muscles or do much at all if I'm using my arms – it just kind of kinks my spine in perhaps the wrong place and feels uncomfortable (I have a severely thin L5 disc). If I take my arms away completely and use my back muscles to lift my body up to the half cobra position then I get a good workout with 10 reps or so. Is this a different exercise entirely when I lift using my back muscles? I do get relief from my back pain which seems to stem from overly tight back muscles

  3. Im very new to yoga poses and i have searched online which one is connected with my zodiac sign Gemini and the cobra is one of them, this video helps me alot! this person deserves a gold medal. Thank you.

  4. I had a herniated disc a few years ago, and my physiotherapist gave me an exercise that was very similar to this, but instead of holding the position, I had to do pushups (20, with a pause after the 10th). It helped a lot.

  5. I had chronic back pain in the early 1990s. A physio' advised this stretch followed by flexion every couple of hours. I have to say, it seemed to make things worse. I suspect the benefits derive from the sub-maximal stretch position, because the Cat-Cow exercise (which avoids extreme stretching) works well for me.
    I would appreciate your thoughts on the following treatments for back pain –
    1) Static Brachiation: Hanging by the hands from a pull-up bar (or similar), allowing the spine to elongate and align. It's rather akin to traction, but gravity does the work.
    2) Inversion Table: Same principle as static brachiation, but more expensive! I used one of these about twenty years ago. Weird sensation when you start but you adapt quite quickly. After time, I used to watch TV for an hour or more while on the Inversion Table. (Rarely went fully vertical; 30 degrees from vertical was enough for me!)
    Appreciate your thoughts, please. 🙏

  6. My arms are not slanted like yours when I do this, it's vertical straight below my shoulders for 30secs and my lower back hurts when I do it. I've been doing this following an app stretching avatar. So wondered if I was doing it wrong?

  7. Hi Leon, we hear experts all the time cautioning us not to arch the back while doing supine abs exercises, front raises, barbell/dumbbell biceps etc irrespective of whether or not one has back pain. However, this cobra pose does arch the back deliberately and that too for quite a few seconds. Why in most exercise, it is advised even to healthy individuals not to arch and why you have this exercise on this channel. There must be a valid reason. Just want to to know it. Thx in advance

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