Crawling Has Some Effect on Coronary Heart Disease and Lumbar Disc Herniation

Crawling is a relatively uncommon form of exercise, and doctors do not recommend that patients use crawling to relieve the suffering of certain diseases. But I personally experienced two incidents that changed my view.

My father has coronary heart disease. For a period he had chest tightness, with fairly obvious symptoms, but he refused to take medicine, so I had him try crawling. The method is simple: put on gloves, get on all fours, and crawl on the floor; the intensity should not be too great, kept within what he can tolerate. Crawling is not actually a high-intensity exercise. After trying it for a while, his condition improved greatly; this is not to say his coronary heart disease was cured, but his clinical symptoms disappeared. I had long been anxious about his coronary heart disease, and he had always refused medication. After he exercised this way on his own, nearly ten years have now passed and everything is peaceful.

The second person I advised to use crawling to relieve suffering was a cancer patient who also had lumbar disc herniation, and whose skin was also prone to allergies so he could not apply plasters. His illness should originally have been treated with physical therapy at an orthopedics department, but because of the pandemic he did not dare go to the hospital, so he asked me about some natural therapies. He did not seek a cure, only hoped to relieve his back pain.

I likewise suggested he try crawling. I told him to try it for a week; if symptoms improved, continue; if not, stop. After trying it for a week he saw some effect, and he persisted on his own for about three months, at which point the back pain disappeared. Previously, when his back pain was severe, he had to get trigger-point injections; now his back no longer hurts, and he is very happy.

Neither my father nor this patient has gone back to the hospital for a re-examination of their coronary heart disease and lumbar disc herniation, so I cannot judge whether their diseases are cured. But for both coronary heart disease and lumbar disc herniation, cure is difficult; modern medicine can probably only improve their quality of life and cannot root out the diseases. Since crawling can relieve their suffering, we cannot say that crawling is useless.

If you search Baidu for whether crawling can treat coronary heart disease and lumbar disc herniation, the standard answer is no. But true knowledge comes from practice; in terms of relieving patients' symptoms, crawling is useful. The daily crawling time should vary from person to person; patients should crawl within their capacity and not overdo it. And when using crawling to relieve symptoms of these two diseases, do not be impatient; a little relief from each session is enough. Persist steadily until quality of life is much improved.