What You Need to Know About Relieving Sciatic Nerve Pain
You’ve probably arrived at this site because you are looking for sciatic nerve pain relief. If you are, you are definitely not alone! You are probably aware that many, many people have problems with sciatica and sciatic nerve pain can range in intensity from slightly uncomfortable to very, very debilitating.
Believe me – I know – been there, done that, as they say. And I definitely don’t want to go back there again! I was very fortunate to find a 3-step system of Assessment, Pain Relief and Exercise.
I was determined to use natural remedies, particularly exercise, to find relief from my sciatic nerve pain. But what I didn’t realize was that I needed to assess my own particular muscle imbalances before I could determine what muscles needed strengthening and which needed stretching. Simple!
However, it can take years of pain to discover this and it is my hope that I can help people to find relief from their sciatic nerve pain without the years of suffering that I endured. Basically, what usually happens is that people treat the symptoms rather than addressing the real cause of their sciatic nerve pain.
The simple diagram below may help:
Believe me – I know – been there, done that, as they say. And I definitely don’t want to go back there again! I was very fortunate to find a 3-step system of Assessment, Pain Relief and Exercise.
I was determined to use natural remedies, particularly exercise, to find relief from my sciatic nerve pain. But what I didn’t realize was that I needed to assess my own particular muscle imbalances before I could determine what muscles needed strengthening and which needed stretching. Simple!
However, it can take years of pain to discover this and it is my hope that I can help people to find relief from their sciatic nerve pain without the years of suffering that I endured. Basically, what usually happens is that people treat the symptoms rather than addressing the real cause of their sciatic nerve pain.
The simple diagram below may help:
This shows that we need to work with the muscle imbalances that create the sciatica pain in the first place. I’ve given some further information in my article on Inversion Exercises for Sciatica, which I hope you’ll find interesting and helpful and I’ve answered some common questions there also. I’ve also written a Lose the Back Pain System Review for your further information.
When you think about it, you use your back muscles in any sort of movement you make – sitting, standing, walking, moving your arms, twisting, leaning forward or backward, even moving your head – all of this involves your back muscles to some degree. Even when you’re flat and lying perfectly still, your back is still supporting you.
So unless you want your whole structure to collapse, you have to live with the fact that we have to start thinking about looking after our backs a bit more and taking them for granted a bit less. It’s therefore very easy to see why so many people have so much back pain – your poor back doesn’t get a break even when you do!
Without our back muscles, we wouldn’t even be able to keep our vital organs in place, so somehow or other we have to learn to look after them and live with them as best we can. And most of the time, most people don’t help the problem much with the things they do every day.
Your posture at work (hours hunched over a computer, for example) can really overwork your back muscles. Proper posture puts our weight on the muscles that are supposed to work to keep us supported and upright. When we hunch over our computer screens, we’re using other muscles which aren’t designed to work in the same way.
Slouching can cramp up these muscles for long periods of time, which obviously isn’t good. Standing or sitting up straight opens up these muscles, keeps them loose instead of cramped and helps the blood to flow freely as it should do. So it makes sense to get up from your chair often, even if just for a minute.
Everyone knows that such poor posture can cause back strain or back spasms resulting in back pain but there are other things that people do which they think may help their back or sciatic nerve pain which actually make things worse! Exercising is a prime example of this – you have to discover what exercises are best for YOUR own particular back or sciatic problem.
Doing the wrong exercises, for example, can be tightening just the muscles you need to stretch and therefore adding to your problem. That’s where Muscle Balance Therapy comes in and where you need to assess your own particular strengths and weaknesses.
When you think about it, you use your back muscles in any sort of movement you make – sitting, standing, walking, moving your arms, twisting, leaning forward or backward, even moving your head – all of this involves your back muscles to some degree. Even when you’re flat and lying perfectly still, your back is still supporting you.
So unless you want your whole structure to collapse, you have to live with the fact that we have to start thinking about looking after our backs a bit more and taking them for granted a bit less. It’s therefore very easy to see why so many people have so much back pain – your poor back doesn’t get a break even when you do!
Without our back muscles, we wouldn’t even be able to keep our vital organs in place, so somehow or other we have to learn to look after them and live with them as best we can. And most of the time, most people don’t help the problem much with the things they do every day.
Your posture at work (hours hunched over a computer, for example) can really overwork your back muscles. Proper posture puts our weight on the muscles that are supposed to work to keep us supported and upright. When we hunch over our computer screens, we’re using other muscles which aren’t designed to work in the same way.
Slouching can cramp up these muscles for long periods of time, which obviously isn’t good. Standing or sitting up straight opens up these muscles, keeps them loose instead of cramped and helps the blood to flow freely as it should do. So it makes sense to get up from your chair often, even if just for a minute.
Everyone knows that such poor posture can cause back strain or back spasms resulting in back pain but there are other things that people do which they think may help their back or sciatic nerve pain which actually make things worse! Exercising is a prime example of this – you have to discover what exercises are best for YOUR own particular back or sciatic problem.
Doing the wrong exercises, for example, can be tightening just the muscles you need to stretch and therefore adding to your problem. That’s where Muscle Balance Therapy comes in and where you need to assess your own particular strengths and weaknesses.
What Causes Sciatica? – The following short video may help:
We’re going to be looking at some of these common issues around sciatic nerve pain on this site. We hope you stay and review some of the information and that we can help you start some good habits and drop a few bad ones so that you can start looking after your back by helping your back support you properly.