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You Have An Inguinal Hernia, Now What?

So you figured out that you have an inguinal hernia. By now you most likely you have thought about your choices on how you want to address the situation. You can get surgery, or you can try the natural method to fix your inguinal hernia. If you absolutely know without a doubt that you do not want to go under the knife, then it’s time to start taking action and moving toward getting that lump to go away.

Be Proactive

You are the only one who can make the changes necessary to proactively change your situation and fix your inguinal hernia. There is an old quote that I love. One that I live by, and have always tried to teach my kids to live by. It says:

“Between stimulus and response there is a space, and in that space lies our ability to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

The stimulus is your hernia. The response to it is completely your choice. You can choose to either let the hernia rule your life and make you miserable, or you can be proactive in trying to fix your inguinal hernia and change your circumstances. If you choose to do nothing, your hernia will only get worse and will most likely become a point of stress and depression for you.

If you are proactive and take steps to combat the hernia, you will start to feel as though it is not out of your control, and in turn feel empowered by the fact that you are making positive changes. You never know, you might even figure out all kinds of things that have been wrong with your body that you didn’t even realize which is what happened to me. I am 44 years old, and in the best shape of my life. Without working through all the bullshit that my body threw at me while trying to figure out how to fix my hernia, I would not be where I am today.

Change Your Viewpoint on Discomfort

Most people see pain and discomfort as a negative thing. But, what if you decide to change your perception of it? What if you decide that you are going to use this negative situation (the hernia), and all of the pain and discomfort, and use it to create a positive change in your body? Do you have a choice? Not really if you know for a fact that you don’t want surgery. The only logical thing to do is to use the negative situation as fuel to reach your body’s true health potential. And as you get closer to that point, I have a feeling your hernia will be smaller (if not gone). You will feel 100 times better, and be able to manage the hernia without a problem.

Take Action To Fix Your Inguinal Hernia

Will it take time? YES

Will it suck sometimes? YES

Will you definitely be able to heal your hernia on your own? I DON’T KNOW

Will anything good come from not trying? NO!

Get off your ass and do something about it! You can start with getting yourself a good hernia belt, and start doing some exercises to strengthen up the muscles around the inguinal canal. 

How I Fixed My Anterior Pelvic Tilt To Fix My Hernia

Why A Mobility Exercise To Fix My Hernia?

I realized, after writing on this blog for a few years while trying to fix my hernia, and talking to tons of people with inguinal hernias, that we all had a few things in common. Most of us have some sort of pelvic postural problem, usually anterior pelvic tilt. It’s usually coupled with back pain or tension, and tight hamstrings. Once I realized this I thought that this had to be a contributing factor to why people end up getting hernias in the first place.

There is a story about a guy who was able to heal his hernia naturally by walking on his toes. So I decided to give this a try for a little while to see if it would make any difference for me. What I noticed after a few weeks of walking around on my toes without allowing my heals to touch the ground, was that all that was doing was causing me to rotate my pelvis under just enough to alleviate the anterior pelvic tilt that I didn’t even realize I had up until then. The crazy thing is that it was actually working to make my hernia pop out a lot less.

What Is Anterior Pelvic Tilt?

Basically anterior pelvic tilt (A.P.T.) is when your the top of your pelvis is tilted forward a bit too far. Imagine your pelvis as a cup that’s full of liquid. If the cup is tilted forward too far, the contents of the cup will spill out, and you’ll have a big mess to clean up. Well, your pelvis is the same. If it is tilted too far forward it skews the musculature that is connected to it and causes all sorts of tension in places where there should not be tension.  All that tension leads to injury, such as a tear in the abdominal wall that allows your intestine to sneak through. (hint hint) See the connection?

Anterior Pelvic tilt looks like this:

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Before you get all crazy about fixing your pelvic tilt, you need to make sure that you actually have APT to begin with. Your pelvis is supposed to have a small amount of tilt to the front. Usually about 7º, but if yours is tilted more than that, you have APT. Here is a great video on how to assess your pelvic situation:

 

I Have Anterior Pelvic Tilt, Now What?

If you did the test in the above video, and figured out that you do have anterior pelvic tilt, you can follow the exercise that I go through in the video below to fix it. Because I realized the connection that APT has to being able to fix my hernia, I did this exercise every day for about a month and fixed my APT. I still do this at least a few times a week to keep my hip flexors including the psoas nice and loose.

The exercise

To do this exercise you’ll need a good resistance band. I got the one that I use from Rogue Fitness. You will also need a strong place to wrap the band around.

Step One:

Wrap one end of the band around something strong enough to hold it at about waist height or lower. Most of the time I do this inside the house. When I do, I wrap the band around a door knob like this:

Fix APT to Fix MY Hernia

Make sure you have a strong door if you do it this way so you don’t rip the door off the hinges!

 

Step Two:

Put your left leg through the band, bringing the band up into the crease between your hamstring and butt while stepping back to create tension.

Step Three:

Take a knee with the left leg. Keep your left knee directly underneath your body, and the top of your left foot flat on the ground. Your right leg should be out at 90º with a bent knee, and the sole of your right foot should be flat on the ground.

Step Four:

With the band distracting your femur into the front of the hip socket, shift your weight forward over your grounded knee while squeezing your glute and keeping your stomach tight.

Step Five:

Hold that position or move in and out of your end range slowly for about two minutes.

Step Six:

Follow steps one through five for the right side.

 

Side note: If you cannot hold the hernia in on your own, make sure you’re wearing a hernia belt while doing this exercise.

 

Conclusion

In order to fix my hernia, I knew that I would have to get my pelvis aligned correctly, and this was the perfect exercise to accomplish that. Give it a shot and let me know what you think!

 

Pelvic Posture And Its Relation To Inguinal Hernia

Pelvic Posture is a huge problem for most people searching for a natural hernia cure. Many of us suffer from Anterior Pelvic Tilt which is what creates the environment for a hernia to occur by putting undo tension on the muscles surrounding the inguinal canal. I’ve foound Correct Pelvic Posture to be one of the most important components of an overall hernia healing strategy.

I’ve been getting a lot of comments and questions through Facebook and Youtube about the exercises that I do to heal my hernia. Everybody seems to be focused on the exercises. Everybody thinks that they could just do the exercises, and nothing else, and that they’ll be able to fix their hernia. I don’t think that’s the right way to go about it.

A lot of people are asking me “How long did you do the exercises before the lump went away?”, but that’s not really how it happened for me. The first thing I had to do, was I had to get my mind straight. This is when I just made the decision that I wasn’t going to get hernia surgery no matter what, and that I was going to do whatever it took to be able to heal my hernia naturally. At the same time, I started working on my pelvic posture. Those two things really are what started the healing process for me. Within three weeks of working on my pelvic posture along with adopting this new mindset, the hernia shrank to less than half the size than it was at it’s worst. The exercises didn’t come until later. I just stacked the exercise on top of what I was already doing to get my pelvis straightened out.

I just don’t want you guys to get ultra-focused on just exercises the whole time, because for me, that wasn’t the first thing that I did that started to get it to heal. I just wanted to clarify that to make sure that it was understood that there was other stuff going on before I found any hernia specific exercises that had a positive effect on healing the hernia.

The mindset component is just as important as anything else in th entire equation. Imagine trying to go to the store if you don’t know what store you’re going to. You would just drive around in circles because you don’t know where you’re going. You have to have an end goal in mind. You have to have a place to go. You have to have a vision of what it looks like to be healed and keep that vision in your head. What’s it going to look and feel like when you throw the hernia belt in the trash and go do jumping jacks without having to worry about the hernia popping out?  That clear vision is what you need to strive for first and foremost before you do anything else.

Then, get your pelvic posture in line, make sure you’re not eating foods that are inflammatory in your gut, work on getting the  ab vacuum right, then put some effort into the exercises. The exercise is just stacked on top of it to make sure that the muscles are strong enough to hold everything back once you get your body situated to a point where it’s ready to start being able to handle it.

I hope that makes sense!

If you’re interested to connect with other like minded people, all striving to heal their hernias naturally without surgery, make sure to sign up for the My Natural Hernia Cure private facebook group. There is some good conversation going on there. 

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Hernia Workout

I’ve been doing the 1916 hernia workout that I have posted on my YouTube channel for a while now, and I got to a point where I was doing so many reps that it was taking me forever to get through it. I ended up adding some five pound ankle weights to my ankles in order to put some more resistance into it, and that way I could lower the reps back down to 10, and start back up from there. This takes much less time than doing 50 reps of every exercise.

I’m up to 18 reps now, and basically, I noticed that I’m definitely building muscle right on top of the pelvis, right in the inguinal area where the hernia was, but the muscles are getting a lot bigger on the right side (the side without the hernia) than on the left side (the hernia side). So what I’m going to do, is try to isolate the left side more than the right side during the exercises in the hernia workout where I can.

Some of the exercises where you’re going around with both knees and things like that, I’m going to do half the amount of reps that I would normally do for the right side, and then all the reps for left side. So, I’m just really going to start focusing on targeting just the left side a lot more, but I’m going to keep the exercise going a little bit for the right side too. I just want to see if I can build up the left side as much as the right side has been built up. There’s noticeable difference when I look down. I can really see the difference in the muscle development that’s going on.

I feel like this hernia workout is an important piece of the puzzle in healing a hernia naturally, but not quite as important as the ab vacuum. What do you think?

Directional Breathing | Meditation For Inguinal Hernia

How To Use Directional Breathing To Heal An Inguinal Hernia

I refer to this as directional breathing because basically what I am doing is focusing the energy of my breath directly to the hernia site with my inhale, then pulling away negative energy and getting rid of it with my exhale.

Get Into A Comfortable Position

In the video I di this while sitting in a meditating position to make it easier to film, but I actually do this while lying down on my back.

First I get completely relaxed. Focusing on my feet first, I make my body feel heavy against the ground thinking about each part of my body sinking into the floor. I work my up thinking about my legs, then my butt, then my back, my neck, my arms and hands, and my head.

Focus On Your Breath

Once I’m comfortable, I start to think about my breathing. I take a beep breath in and fill up the bottom of my lungs first, then the top of the lungs. While I am inhaling I am picturing in my mind that the air that I am breathing in is crisp and cold like a chilly winter day. I picture the air flowing into my body and going directly to the hernia.

At the bottom of my breath I start to envision two thumbs kneading the fascia where the hole of the hernia is and pushing it together. Then I exhale deeply, but somewhat restricting the outflow of air with my lips. While I am exhaling, I am envisioning black smoke like that of a semi truck pulling a heavy load up a mountain.

Visualization Is Everything

Really concentrate on the visualization in your mind. I feel like the visualization is more important than the breathing. If you feel like you are having a tough time visualizing, maybe scale back the depth of your breath a little bit so that you can focus better.

How Often and For How Long?

I do this maybe  once a week for a few minutes, or however long I feel like I can do it and hold concentration. The mind body connection is a powerful thing! I have gone from having an inguinal hernia the size of two golf balls together in the inguinal canal, to having no lump, and no pressure at all. This is part of how I got to this point.

 

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Healing Inguinal Hernia With Exercise

Is It Possible?

If you don’t already follow me, you probably came across this page because you were doing an internet search to see if it is possible to heal an inguinal hernia with exercise. You have probably been seeing about a million other web pages that say that it is not possible, and that the only way to fix a hernia is through surgery.

Well, I’m here to tell you that that is 100% bullshit! If you read through this blog you can see my whole story about trying to heal my inguinal hernia naturally without surgery. Why I started, what I had to work through, everything. But I’ll make a long story short here.

I’ve had an inguinal hernia for over 4 years. It was about the size of 2 golf balls next to each other in the inguinal canal when it poked out, which was all the time from the moment I got out of bed in the morning. It was never painful, but it was super annoying especially because I’m an extremely active guy.

Absolutely It Is Possible

I worked to figure out the best way to go about healing my inguinal hernia naturally with absolutely no results until about six months ago. That’s when everything I was doing just started clicking. Through trial and error I figured it out! Literally within three weeks my inguinal hernia was half the size. Then 3 months later it was the size of an M&M. Now I am at a point where the hernia does not poke out ever. I never feel pressure at all except a tiny bit when I am in a forward sitting position.

What Do I Have To Do?

You have to commit to putting in the work. Your inguinal hernia is not just going to get better by itself. There is a weakness in the muscles and fascia that hold the intestine in place which is why you have a hernia in the first place. Strengthen those muscles, and you are one step closer to getting to the point where your hernia will be gone.

If you are not willing to put in the work, then you might as well just go get surgery because healing will never happen.

If you are willing to put in the work, then I think you will find that these exercises hit the spot perfectly. They are designed to target the muscles around the inguinal canal in order to hold the abdominal contents in place, and they do exactly that.

Now I’m not saying that these exercise alone are going to be able to cure every inguinal hernia out there, because there is a lot more that goes into it than just this, but they will get you moving in the right direction.

If your interested in seeing what else I’ve had to do in order to get my inguinal hernia where it is now (there are a few key things), feel free to check out some of my other posts and my youtube channel.

Here Are The Exercises

Healing An Inguinal Hernia With Exercise

Regardless of what the medical establishment will tell you, you can heal an inguinal hernia with exercise. These are the most effective exercises I have found to get it done:

  • Exercise #1 Leg Pulls
  • Exercise #2 Sleeping Bag (or pillow) Squeeze
  • Exercise #3 Leg L’s
  • Exercise #4 Reverse Swim
  • Exercise #5 V-Ups
  • Exercise #6 Knee Circle Leg Extensions
  • Exercise #7 V-Downs
  • Exercise #8 Around The World
  • Exercise #9 Straight Leg Sit-Ups
  • Exercise #10 Straight Leg Side Ups

I also do a couple yoga breathing exercises that you can see here.

How Often Should I Do It?

From my experience about 2-3 times a week is the max. When I first tried it I was doing it more than that, but I quickly realized that the muscles would get really fatigued and the hernia would want to poke out more often. So I cut it back to 2 times a week, and it was perfect. Start slow and don’t go crazy. For some people it’s hard to start slow (me included), but believe me, it will be much better if you do.

How Long Will I Have To Do This?

Probably forever at some level. Every time you do the workout you go up 1 rep for each exercise. By the time I got to 30 reps I felt like I didn’t need to wear the hernia belt  anymore to keep my hernia from poking out. But the last thing you want to do is get to that point, then just stop the workout. I plan on doing these for the rest of my life in order to keep the area strong and reduce the risk of the hernia popping out again.

Recently, I got to a point where I was doing 50 reps of each exercise. The workout was taking me so long that I decided to strap some 5lbs weights to my ankles and start back over at 10 reps. I’ll keep you guys posted on how it goes!

Remember, without commitment you have nothing. If you don’t want surgery, then don’t get it! Commit yourself to healing and you will heal. The body is a healing machine.

Neo G Hernia Belt Truss Review

Neo G Hernia Belt Review

In this post, I review the Neo G hernia belt. Since dealing with my hernia, I have tested almost every hernia truss on the market. My criteria for testing are as folloows:

  1. It must be comfortable enough to wear all day every day.
  2. I should be able to wear it in or out of the water during any activity.
  3. It should be supportive enough to keep my hernia pushed in at all times no matter what I’m doing.
  4. The belt should be low profile so it cannot be seen under clothing (especially surf trunks).

Neo G Hernia Belt Pros List:

  • Basic, somewhat minimal design
  • Quality sewing and seams
  • Adjustable pad

Neo G Hernia Belt Cons List:

  • The straps are not very adjustable due to the shortness of the velcro
  • The convex pad was extremely uncomfortable and hard
  • Thick straps make it feel bulky
  • Metal hardware

Where to buy Neo G Hernia Belt:

You can buy them here: https://www.neo-g.com/pages/supports-braces

Price: $35.99

Conclusion:

The Neo G Hernia Belt caught my eye when I first saw it because of its minimal design. I am always looking for things that are lightweight and simply designed, with no extra bullshit that’s not needed to get the job done. It seemed like the Neo G had that going for it.

The Pad:

What I didn’t realize before I bought it was how insanely large and hard the front pad is. I can only wear this hernia belt for about 30 minutes before having to take it off because it digs into the hernia site so badly. You can see from the pictures below that it still has the sticker on the front because I didn’t even wear it long enough for the sticker to come off.

Also, if you are an active person who is trying to exercise or doing anything where you have to bend at the waist, the pad gets in the way of any type of movement like that even though its positioning is adjustable.

I also didn’t like the way the Neo G Hernia Belt made my pants stick out in the front because of how big the pad is.

Adjustability:

The lack of adjustability from the velcro strips being too short was another main concern, especially if you’re going to be doing any type of activity where you want to tighten up the belt and leg strap for more support. The velcro strips are so short that when you want to snug up the belt you end up pulling the “hook” side of the velcro right past the “loop” side, and there is nothing left to stick it to. Same for the leg strap.

Bulkiness

The straps that make up the belt and leg strap are quite bulky on their own, but when you stack them on top of each other to fasten the velcro they become extremely thick and bulky.

The pad on the front is a full 1-1/8″ thick and barely has any give to it all, which as I said, makes it extremely uncomfortable.

My Take On It

The Neo G Hernia Belt could work for some people, but for me, it was not what I would want to put on every morning and keep on all day. I am far too active to wear something with such a rigid pad that would get in the way of everything I do, even just sitting at my desk. But the key to managing your hernia without surgery is finding a hernia belt that fits your lifestyle, and that you are able to wear all day, every day without having to think about the hernia so much. Even though the Neo G Hernia Belt wasn’t right for me, it could be right for you. Use your own judgment.

Understandably, my opinion might be somewhat biased based on the fact that I have been through testing of so many hernia belts looking for something I could wear comfortably during all the activities that I do without any luck. I ended up having to design my own hernia belt because of this. If you are interested in seeing the hernia belt that I developed and have been using for a while with great success please click here to see the Comfort-Truss.

Be sure to check out more hernia belt reviews to make a more informed decision on which one will be right for you!

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Orione Men’s Hernia Brief Review

Orione Hernia Brief Review

In this post I review the Orione Hernia Brief. In the time that I have had my hernia, I have tried almost every hernia belt that is on the market. So I thought it would be fitting to review each of them and post my findings here so that anyone looking for one to use would be able to make an informed decision on which one to buy.

(Update 9/2022) As you might know, I have since designed my own hernia belt, which was a perfect fit for my active lifestyle and is available for sale now. You don’t have to buy the one that I designed, but if you are attempting to heal your hernia naturally, you will need to find one that is comfortable enough to wear all day every day, and that fits your lifestyle. I hope this review helps you to make that decision a bit easier if you are considering the hernia briefs.

Orione Hernia Brief Pros List:

  • Form-fitting
  • Stretchy Fabric
  • Quality sewing and seams
  • Flat pad

Orione Hernia Brief Cons List:

  • For me, it was too constrictive since I am a boxers guy
  • Did not offer enough support for me to be confident that it would hold my hernia in
  • Straps that go down around the crotch feel like they were giving me a wedgie
  • No adjustability

Where to buy Orione Hernia Brief:

You can buy them on www.herniapants.com

Price: $37-$39

Conclusion:

The Orione Men’s Hernia Brief was very uncomfortable for me from the moment I put it on the first time. This could be because I usually wear boxers. I am not used to my package being all constricted while wearing briefs.

Although it is very form-fitting, it rides quite high on the waist. This made it uncomfortable and unappealing to look at when I would take my shirt off. Since I’m an avid surfer, this is quite often.

There was no adjustability on the waist and leg straps, so if I were to want more pressure while doing strenuous activities I was not able to tighten them up. My hernia would often slide out from behind the pad a lot of the time because of this.

If you are trying to manage your hernia either while waiting for surgery or while trying to heal it holistically, the most important thing is that you can keep the hernia held in at all times. Whatever hernia belt you decide to use must be one that you are comfortable in, and that fits your lifestyle. It is possible that the hernia briefs would work for you, but for me, it just didn’t fit my lifestyle, or offer enough support.

If you are interested in seeing the hernia belt that I designed and have been using for a while with great success please click here.

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Meditex Uriel Hernia Belt Review

URIEL HERNIA BELT REVIEW

The Uriel hernia belt was one of many trusses that I tried while looking for something that would fit my active lifestyle. Firstly, I needed something comfortable enough to wear all day every day and would allow me to continue doing the activities I love without having to hold back. Secondly, as an avid surfer and an all-around active person, I did not want to have the hernia on my mind every minute of the day. With those things in mind, I gave the Meditex Uriel hernia belt a try, and this is what I thought of it.

 

Meditex Uriel Hernia Belt Pros List:

  • Fairly basic design
  • Soft Fabric on the inside of the pad
  • Quality sewing and seams

Meditex Uriel Hernia Belt Cons List:

  • Bulky
  • Not functional to wear in water since it’s made with heavy elastic bands
  • convex pad digs into the hernia site causing severe discomfort
  • Limited adjustability on leg and waist strap

Where to buy Meditex Urial Hernia Support Belt:

You can buy them on amazon.

Price: $49

Conclusion:

As you can probably tell, the Uriel Hernia Belt was very disappointing for me. I could not wear it for more than about a half hour due to the pad being hard and convex. Consequently, it would dig into the hernia site and cause pain after a short time. I couldn’t surf with the belt on because the pad is so large. I would not be able to paddle on the surfboard without jamming it into the hernia site even more.

The waist straps are extremely bulky. This makes it very uncomfortable and unappealing to look at when I would take my shirt off. There was very limited adjustability on the waist and leg straps, so if I needed more pressure while doing activities I was not able to tighten them up.

Be sure to check out some of my other hernia belt reviews to get a better idea of which one might be the right one for you!

Click here if you are interested in seeing the hernia belt that I designed and have been using for a while with great success.

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