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Sciatica
Phasen
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Is there anything to be done about sciatica? I was diagnosed with it like a year ago and they told me to do some yoga.
Do people who have sciatica usually get muscle relaxers or something to help manage the pain?
I got some weird looks going to urgent care complaining about back issues, almost like they thought I was a pill abuser.
Do people who have sciatica usually get muscle relaxers or something to help manage the pain?
I got some weird looks going to urgent care complaining about back issues, almost like they thought I was a pill abuser.
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Did your doctor suggest PT or a course of muscle relaxants/steroids?
If you have insurance you need to talk to them and get them to send you to some type of physical therapy. I also do not recommend chiropractors because their quality is horribly variable. I have a friend who was a dancer and can no longer dance due to a bad chiropractor. I also know a girl that failed the chiropractor licensing exam SEVEN TIMES. They still allow her to take the exam...
I also have bad sciatica, and was prescribed muscle relaxers so that I could sleep for a while. However, they are not a permanent solution. You need to try to work out your lower body and core. Strengthening those muscles will go a long way towards managing your sciatica. Yoga can be good for this, but you need to do more than rely on the urgent care nurse's advice. You need to go see a professional.
Based on that, your doc will give you a path of treatment
I had terrible pain all down my sciatic
I adjust the height of my chair every few days and it's felt better ever since
purely anecdotal, but hey, it worked for me!
best of luck!
Ok I'll do that tomorrow. Thanks for the information everyone.
If your pain was anything like mine, no painkillers will give you any relief. My pain went from feeling like a muscle pull, with a dull ache when i stood up/sat down, to pants shitting, tooth shattering agony when i moved in a certain way.
PS i didn't actually shit my pants, but probably only because the pain made everything in my body seize up.
They will also measure your range of motion and help you to get a baseline for starting a strengthening routine. You will want to increase the strength of your core so that you are not putting so much of the work load on your back.
The PT was fair but a little silly when i went through it in February. But most trainers at the gym will not touch you after you have had a back injury unless you have gone through it first.
Also, you will want to work on stretching and increase your flexibility. The more inactive you are the less flexible you are the more your tendons and muscles actually pull your back out of alignment and add stress.
The idea is that you will have to make a change to your lifestyle to help prevent flareups. That is unless you enjoyed the tooth shattering pain and are looking forward to having some more later on?
Was that directed at me? my issue was bone/disc related, so no amount of PT could have prevented a flareup.
you are going to hear the words 'strengthen your core' more times than you can shake a stick at.
but it will help
So true, i thought i had a pretty strong core... i most certainly did not, according to their standards.
I slipped a disk shoveling snow in February and was in the pain that was so well described by you. the PT did not relieve the pain or help the injury, only time helped that for me, thankfully I did not have to go through surgery.
However the PT is to get your body in better shape and learn better habits to prevent another incident. Also when i went to continue the regimen at the gym with a trainer for a while, they would not touch me till i had completed a course of PT and gotten the green light. They don't want another injury on their hands.
Unfortunately, the surgery has a small (but not negligible) chance of leaving scar tissue behind which will cause the same pain as the initial problem.
He was in amazing shape though, and it was obvious that additional PT was not going to help him.
when I went in they told me to raise my leg off the table 6" and hold it for 30 (seconds)
I'm all "pffffffff okay"
18 seconds later my leg is shaking for some reason ....
the hell?!
haha, yep! that was my experience too!!
Motherfucking clamshell