Sciatic Back Pain

As everyone knows, who never had the pain of the sciatic nerve, it is extremely painful. Move in the wrong direction and you feel the pain. Numbness and tingling may occur at any time. It is therefore extremely difficult to go about your daily activities or do productive work to support you and your family.

Whenever possible, you need to begin to stretch and strengthen your muscles to relieve sciatic pain and help prevent further problems.

Before beginning any exercise of the sciatic nerve pain, get a diagnosis from a physician as a chiropractor. You must be sure that you do not have a condition of an injury which will be exacerbated by exercise.

Exercise your stomach muscles, but it does not start doing sit ups and crunches, they do worse and might actually help cause sciatica. The hip flexors, piriformis, and stomach muscles are most important to strengthen, if you have sciatica.

There are 3 simple exercises for sciatica. They

1. Lay on the ground, one leg bent and foot flat on the ground, the other leg straight. Keep lower back flat on the ground. Raise your right leg 8-10 inches from the floor keep you lower stomach muscles tight. Hold this for about 10 seconds and then lower the leg. Repeat with other leg. Remember to make your leg and slowly. Try to work your way up to ten lifts per day with each leg. This will help strengthen the lower abdomen.

2. The piriformis muscles are those of your buttocks. These must be strengthened to reduce the pressure on your sacroiliac joints, those that connect the base of the spine to your pelvic bone. One way to do is place a rolled towel at the base of your spine where the bone in the shape of a triangle (sacrum), is. A tip should be about where your waist and the other at or slightly beyond your sacrum. Make two fists and put them behind your head on the rounded area of your skull (occiput). To do this, for about five minutes and then for a short walk. This exercise will help relieve pressure on your joints and spine.

3. Stretching your hamstring muscles will help loosen them and prevent stress on the sciatic nerve causing pain. Lie on your feet you back with knees bent, flat on the ground. Put your hands behind your knee and pull your leg until it points upward, then straighten the leg until you start to feel the stretch. Stop there and hold for about 30 seconds. Repeat 2 or 3 times. Do the same with the other leg. Repeat 2 or 3 times a day. Do not abuse this year or it could worsen your pain.

The longer you can stay active and exercise the better off you will. Inactivity leads to weak muscles and get back your reasons to get worse. Get on your feet and move as soon as you can. If you feel pain while doing any of these exercises, stop them and to consult a chiropractor or a specialist in the spine.