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Sciatica is the name given to a back problem that involves the sciatic nerve. The pain normally travels down the leg and in severe cases can make it impossible to put weight on that leg. Sciatica can also just involve cases where the pain ends up in the buttock or foot. Most people can get relief from sciatica by lying down and taking the gravity pressure off their body but is some cases it is very difficult to find a position that is comfortable due to the pressure from a disc bulge or disc herniation that has built up on the sciatic nerve.
Many therapists blame the Piriformis muscle for sciatica (thus it is often referred to as Piriformis syndrome) but in my experience it is rarely ever the cause. Generally, the body’s overall mechanics has a lot to do with sciatica meaning that whenever a person sits or stands, the muscle imbalances in their body cause a disc bulge, disc herniation or disc prolapse that increases the pressure onto the sciatic nerve where it exits around the L4, L5 or S1 region of the spine. There are key areas to work on in the body to take away sciatica but generally an overall, full body approach is needed to rebalance the muscle system and release the pressure from the disc bulge or disc herniation. Treatments that focus on one or two areas of the body do nothing for the overall imbalances and have little lasting effect on sciatic pain. This is perhaps why many treatments fail to provide a solution for bad sciatica and people often end up having unnecessary surgery to release the pressurefrom disc bulges that irritate the sciatic nerve. The main problem with this approach is it doesn’t address the cause of the problem and so the sciatic pain can easily remain or move to a vertebrae higher up the spine.setting up another disc bulge and a new case of sciatica. Exercises and stretches that are often given to treat sciatica invariably irritate the problem because the tight contracted muscles that set up muscle imbalances do not loosen when stretched and only tighten further when exercised due to the lack of circulation getting to the fibres. The full body, hands on approach taken by an SLM trained therapist can be very successful at taking away a disc bulge, disc herniation or disc prolapse that causes sciatica The information and techniques in the self treatment program for sciatica and back pain sufferers also provides many ways of helping yourself or assisting the work being done by the therapist who is treating the sciatica. I would strongly recommend a passive approach, at least initially, as the best way to deal with sciatica and treating it quickly so as to avoid the sciatic pain getting so bad that surgery becomes an emergency option. For more information on understanding sciatica, disc problems or other back pain issues, download your free e copy of The Bad Back Book by completing the order form on the back pain order page.
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