Posted: 5/26/2016 12:17:57 AM EDT
| Any one have any tips to help? Stretches? |
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Trigger Point Dry Needling. http://www.ptplus.com/trigger-point-dry-needling/
This isn't acupuncture, nor a chiropractor. Find a real, University educated PT who does it and find relief. I was out of wack following broken arm, head injury, 40 day coma, followed with a brand new seizure disorder, a partially crippled left hand/arm, and sciatica problems. In short; I was broken. She does deep massage, coupled with dry needling, followed with specific exercises aimed to increase strength and alignment = I'm like new when she is done with me. I tried a chiropractor, regular PT with no results. The neurologist sent me to this woman = fixed. |
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sometimes i'm able to pop my low back and help.
One way I do it is stand up , close hands into a fist, nuckle to knuckle at belly button. Now bend down like your going to look behind you thru your legs. Sometimes I go slow with a bounce to it. Try not having a wallet to tilt you out for awhile also. Whatever you do good luck. |
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Don't know if this would specifically help you, but I did these stretches for disc pt w/ bad sciatic pain. Idea behind it is stretching/relaxing the muscles around the sciatic nerve. These were all taught to me by a swedish physical therapist, who spoke broken english, but it worked for me. Ymmv.
1) Face a desk, countertop, whatever, that goes roughly halfway up your quadriceps. Lift one leg up and put it on the desk Straighten out the other leg, and slightly turn in that foot (like if you were pigeon toed) Lean back and press through your hips. You should feel the quads stretching in the straightened leg. 2) Hamstring stretch And an exercise to strengthen your core without beating up your back. Will help stabilize your back which may help with your sciatic pain, but don't quote me on that one 
Lay on the ground perpendicular to a wall. Put your feet up on the wall and move your ass as close as possible to the wall. Tighten (really tense them) your abdominals and do a short throw crunch and hold it for a few seconds. Your back should be flat. It is basically a very limited range of motion way to do a crunch/situp without affecting your back, |
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http://kristinmcgee.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/pigeon-2.jpg http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5363d137e4b019280fe94fbb/t/536a9f74e4b0f62696d25e72/1399496689443/?format=750w try these and you can do the same thing sitting on a bench & hanging over the edge. and 10-13 on this page https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/17/a8/c5/17a8c5a2dc2a208bf8bd57432ff74c89.jpg and this one too https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/89/e6/68/89e668baace37e2a3092d5828cf4229f.jpg |
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Mine acted up like a motherf&cker last year. A trip to the chiro and stretches didn't help. It took LOTS of ibuprofen (600mg every 6 hours for two weeks) and a interferential/TENS unit borrowed from a friend at a PT clinic to finally get it to quit hurting.
It was miserable. I was sleeping on the floor with my legs up on an exercise ball to try and get relief. It's miserable. My heart goes out to people with real, chronic back pain. That shit gets old fast. Good luck, OP. You have my sympathy. |
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Any one have any tips to help? Stretches? To be honest the best thing to do is surgery...wake up pain free from the surgery 
I have had 4 bulged discs and 4 surgeries to fix each one over the last 10 years. The pain shooting down the leg (right or left) depending on which time is so bad that pain meds hardly even took the edge off. If its pinched badly enough you start losing feeling in your lower leg, foot and cant get the muscles to work flex. I call it floppy foot. Now days I have no pain going down my legs and if I do get soar or stiff it stays in the lower back and is manageable with Aleve. If your lucky physical therapy can work for some people I would call the Dr and go to therapy to learn the right things to do. Good luck |
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Been there, done that. I missed about 2 months of work a couple of years ago due to sciatic pain. I've posted about kidney stone pain before; this was much worse.
eta I went to physical therapy for a few weeks; these following exercises helped. Also, I worked out a little in an exercise pool. Try these exercises: Also, I got a lot of relief by using an exercise ball; these exercises helped: 
Go easy at first, build up your lower back strength. Good luck. |
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Bulletproof whole-body-vibration-plate
This has worked so well that my wife one for the cabin and her office. |