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A 25-year-old member asked:
how do i lose baby weight with sciatica?
5 doctor answers • 9 doctors weighed in
Dr. Robert Kwok answered
Pediatrics 33 years experience
Breastfeed often: "dieting" is not needed, as long as the breastfeeding woman eats only as many calories as needed to maintain her normal (pre-pregnant) weight. For example, if she was 120 pounds before pregnancy and is now 145 pounds, she should eat just enough for a 120 lb woman. Her 25 lb excess will be gradually used up in the production of breastmilk (25 ounces of breastmilk contains about 500 calories).
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Dr. Thomas Dowling answered
Orthopedic Spine Surgery 40 years experience
Dieting: Most recent studies have shown that weight loss is not really a factor of exercise but related to the amount of calories taken in. A very extensive study was published this year looking at hunter-gathers in africa and comparing their diet and activity to a typical western sedentary person and the metabolic or caloric needs were the same. So what you put in your mouth and how much is what counts.
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Dr. Qamar Khan answered
Pain Management 17 years experience
Pool Therapy: Can help unload the spine and allow you to burn some calories. Try that first. If not helping consider seeing a pain specialist to address the pain first and then get back to the exercise afterwards.
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Dr. Thomas Seck answered
Pediatrics 17 years experience
Swim/diet/treatment: For most people swimming doesn't worsen sciatic pain. Weightbearing exercise usually worsens the pain but swimming is non-weightbearing. You may find that certain swim strokes may aggravate it. If so, try a different one.
A healthy diet is also a big part of weight loss.
Also important to seek treatment for sciatica so you can do other forms of exercise. There are specialists that can help.
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Dr. Qamar Khan answered
Pain Management 17 years experience
Pool Therapy: can be helpful will less stress on your spine. Once you mastered this, then getting out of the pool to do land based exercises would be next.
3918 viewsAnswered >2 years agoMerged
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