Core Stabilization
Trains your deep core to hold a steady, protected spine.
What it helps
Strengthens the core that holds your pelvis and spine steady, so your hips move from a strong, controlled base.
How to do it
- Brace your core gently to keep your spine neutral.
- Add a small challenge — a marching foot, an arm reach, or a dead-bug motion — without letting your back move.
- Return and repeat.
Tips
- The goal is a still spine, not a hard crunch.
- Stop if your back starts to move or ache.
Commonly done as 2 sets of 8–10, daily.
Where this appears in recovery
Core Stabilization is part of 17 recovery programs, typically in the phase 3 and phase 5 and phase 4 stage. Each program shows how it fits alongside the other movements:
- Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF) exercise guide
- Ankle Fusion (Tibiotalar Arthrodesis) exercise guide
- Lumbar Microdiscectomy exercise guide
- Lumbar Disc Disease exercise guide
- Lumbar Disc Disease exercise guide
- Lumbar Spinal Stenosis exercise guide
- Lumbar Spinal Stenosis exercise guide
- Hip Impingement (FAI) exercise guide
- Low Back Pain exercise guide
- Low Back Pain exercise guide
- Sciatica (Lumbar Radiculopathy) exercise guide
- Sciatica (Lumbar Radiculopathy) exercise guide
- …and 5 more
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These are general exercise guides, not a personal prescription. The repetitions and frequency shown are what's commonly used — your own surgeon or therapist may advise something different, and their guidance comes first.