March 31st, 2008
Simple Sciatica Exercises
A guide to two simple but remarkably effective sciatica exercises.
There are many sciatica exercises that can be helpful, but when you’re in pain, it is best to keep things as simple as possible. Learning just one or two exercises and using them frequently can provide as much or more relief than a complicated routine.
To figure out what exercise will be of most benefit, it is important to try to distinguish whether you have sciatica from a lumbar disc bulge /herniation, or whether you have a condition called “piriformis syndrome”, which produces symptoms very similar to disc-related sciatica but is caused by contraction of the piriformis muscle in the buttock area.