Figure 5From: The immediate and long-term effects of exercise and patient education on physical, functional, and quality-of-life outcome measures after single-level lumbar microdiscectomy: a randomized controlled trial protocolMat and Upright Therapeutic Exercises. Examples of the easiest (left) and most challenging (right) exercises from the "squat/lunge progression" of the mat and upright program of therapeutic exercises.Back to article page