Exercises on the ball with umbilical hernia

In a child, unlike adult patients, umbilical hernia is somewhat more common. Basically, children under 5 years of age are susceptible to its development, but pathology can also be encountered at an older age, which must be remembered.

In the fight against the disease, gymnastics can help with umbilical hernia in children. It is prescribed by a doctor, and it can be carried out both in the preoperative period and after surgery. Exercises for umbilical hernia in adults and in a child of an early age vary significantly, which must be remembered.

What are the benefits of gymnastics

Gymnastic manipulations from an umbilical hernia in a child are aimed primarily at strengthening the muscular frame of the abdominal press and increasing the tone of the anterior abdominal wall. Of course, exercise therapy can be neglected, but then parents should take into account that more complex and lengthy treatment will be required.

Many believe that exercise therapy can be more than replaced by the most ordinary corset. But actually it is not.

The corset, of course, strengthens the anterior abdominal wall, but it does this through passive influence, which is not always useful for a patient, especially a small one. It is much better to develop your own muscle frame to such an extent that it can hold the defect, and this can only be done with the help of gymnastics.

After surgery, regular exercise will help the patient prevent the development of complications such as suture dehiscence or recurrence of the defect. It will also be possible to achieve an improvement in blood circulation in the organs located in the abdominal cavity, which will have a beneficial effect on overall health.

Exercise therapy for umbilical hernia in adults and children differs in relation to the components of the complex of manipulations, but the goal is always the same: to achieve strengthening of the muscular skeleton in the area of ​​defect development.  

Exercise rules

Physical education for a baby, unlike that for an adult, has a number of its own characteristics that must be remembered. Compliance with simple rules will help make classes not only useful, but also interesting.

Recommendations and rules:

1. Physical education should be conducted in the form of a game. It is recommended to accompany all exercises with words, to stimulate the baby with positive emotions, so that the medical complex is not perceived by him as something negative.
2. Physical exercise is prohibited if the baby is upset or crying loudly. Moreover, no manipulations can be performed through force, forcing the child to them.
3. For more effective strengthening of the navel and the areas closest to it, it is recommended to develop a regimen according to which exercise therapy will be carried out. The most optimal time is the moment of changing one diaper for another before feeding the baby.
4. The first exercises are recommended to be performed under the supervision of a doctor so that he can control the technique and, if there are errors in performance, he can correct them.
5. Newborn children are strictly forbidden to overexert themselves with any physical manipulations. It is better to follow all the recommendations slowly during the day than to do everything in one go, significantly tiring the child and, as a result, without achieving a positive impact.
6. For 1 year of a baby's life, it is possible to add exercises on the ball to the complex for young children from umbilical hernia. Until the first year, the baby can simply be laid out on the stomach to passively stimulate the abdominal muscles.

Basic list of exercises

Exercise therapy for umbilical hernia is carried out only after a pathological defect is set in a small patient.

The most commonly used is the following simple list of exercises:

1. The baby is laid back on the palm of an adult and rises very slightly in the back for a few seconds. There is no need to support the head.
2. Making sure that the patient holds the head, he, holding the lateral surfaces of the body, is turned on weight first to one side, then to the other.
3. Up to 2 years old, you can use reflex crawling, in which the baby should start to crawl if he is allowed to rest his feet on the palms of an adult.
4. You can perform repeated reflex crawling, but in this case the baby must be on his back.
5. If the child has reached 4 months, he can be seated for a short time. At the same time, it is necessary to support him with one hand, especially if he cannot sit, in order to avoid injury.
6. No matter how old the little patient is, you can shake the rattle over him. This will interest the baby and make him reach for the object with his body, straining the abdominal muscles.
7. Conscious children can be asked to collect and hand over to an adult the toys previously laid out around them.
8. You can lay the child on his back, but not just on a horizontal surface, but on a small ball.
   When the patient is six months old, a small rubber ball can be placed under his feet so that he makes a repulsive movement.
9. As soon as the baby began to crawl, it is recommended to stimulate him to this process so that he performs it as often as possible.
   If we are talking about a newborn, it is better for him to replace the classic exercises with a massage effect. This is due to the fact that an inexperienced person who is completely inexperienced, conducting any exercise therapy classes, can do more harm than good.

It is also important to remember that physical education is not a panacea for umbilical hernia.

In addition to performing simple complexes, it is necessary to learn how to properly feed the child, monitor his general well-being, and, if necessary, be ready for surgical treatment.

 

Exercises for umbilical hernia are by no means an alternative to surgical treatment. Of course, they can be used in conservative therapy in order to cope with a mild disease, but this is far from always effective. Focusing on the doctor's recommendations, it is necessary to understand when it is possible to be treated only with the help of physical education, and when the help of surgeons is needed. But even after surgery, physical activity is an excellent help to improve the general condition.