How to heal pain with Sciatic Nerve

Having problems with Sciatic Nerve for the last couple of months. Have taken a number of anti inflammatory tablets, rested up, hot and cold packs nothing seems to work. Anyone any ideas what the best action to take now would be cheers ?

mitosis

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Having problems with Sciatic Nerve for the last couple of months. Have taken a number of anti inflammatory tablets, rested up, hot and cold packs nothing seems to work. Anyone any ideas what the best action to take now would be cheers ?

Excercise worked for me. Gentle at first. It will stimulate the body's healing processes. Has taken me three years to completely recover, but I had a very bad situation.

mitosis

mitosis wrote: »

Excercise worked for me. Gentle at first. It will stimulate the body's healing processes. Has taken me three years to completely recover, but I had a very bad situation.

Thanks a million for that. Any specific exercise I should be doing ?

mitosis

Walking and stretching for me, but you may be (in fact probably are) different. Mine consumed my left leg from gluteous to toes (which were numb for months). Pain was indescribable

mitosis

mitosis wrote: »

Walking and stretching for me, but you may be (in fact probably are) different. Mine consumed my left leg from gluteous to toes (which were numb for months). Pain was indescribable

Thanks for that yeah pain is tough going at the moment any movement I can really feel it getting up from sitting position and hard to get comfortable at all.

kerry4sam

I found intense pain at times when out completing my Mountain Skills course last week-end, but nothing prolonged in a way that I could not continue after a brief pause when it did flare up. Thankfully! Pure drive and determination did help too I suppose

Then went back on my bike for a handy spin and the pain has returned to my back again, but in a more constant form. Maybe with the climbing on the mountains with my backpack I was stretching and moving; twisting and turning in different ways constantly; but on my bike their is limited movement and form is pretty static.

I stopped taking pain-killers months ago and just pure exercise now. Told to avoid the physio, but maybe a chiropractor could assist. I'm signed on for a 180km ROK cycle on 6th July so a chiropractor will be seen by me before that is under-taken.

I cannot rest up for prolonged periods as I like keeping active. What exercises are you undertaking? I will be going swimming later this evening as I find that helps too, especially when I take on my water aerobic exercises.

Hope that helps in some way,
kerry4sam

Larianne

kerry4sam wrote: »

I found intense pain at times when out completing my Mountain Skills course last week-end, but nothing prolonged in a way that I could not continue after a brief pause when it did flare up. Thankfully! Pure drive and determination did help too I suppose

Then went back on my bike for a handy spin and the pain has returned to my back again, but in a more constant form. Maybe with the climbing on the mountains with my backpack I was stretching and moving; twisting and turning in different ways constantly; but on my bike their is limited movement and form is pretty static.

I stopped taking pain-killers months ago and just relying on exercise now. Told to avoid the physio, but maybe a chiropractor could assist. I'm signed on for a 180km ROK cycle on 6th July so a chiropractor will be seen by me before that is under-taken.

I cannot rest up for prolonged periods as I like keeping active. What exercises are you undertaking? I will be going swimming later this evening as I find that helps too, especially when I take on my water aerobic exercises.

Hope that helps in some way,
kerry4sam

Who told you that?

Physiotherapists should be experts in prescribing exercise and dealing with neuropathic pain. Chiropractors are experts in manual therapy (?). You're looking at cure and prevention of re-injury rather than a quick fix, that will probably have to be looked at again further down the line. I was warned off anything to do with Chiropractory by a doctor specialising in Sports Medicine.

Seeing a physio will have a slower progression than a Chiro but at the end of the day you don't want it reoccuring. OP, go see a chartered physiotherapist. Get a recommendation from a friend.

Johnny Drama_11

I got some acupuncture (2-3 sessions) each time it flared up and it worked a treat.

Burkatron

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Having problems with Sciatic Nerve for the last couple of months. Have taken a number of anti inflammatory tablets, rested up, hot and cold packs nothing seems to work. Anyone any ideas what the best action to take now would be cheers ?

Off to a reputable musculo-skeletal therapist with you be it a Physio/Osteopath/Chiropractor/NMT/ART -whatever they are just make sure they've a good reputation for your problem at hand! There are good & ****e practitioners in all practices & disciplines!

Burkatron

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Off to a reputable musculo-skeletal therapist with you be it a Physio/Osteopath/Chiropractor/NMT/ART -whatever they are just make sure they've a good reputation for your problem at hand! There are good & ****e practitioners in all practices & disciplines!

Currently working in Nigeria so not much options out here at the moment. Will be back in August so will deffo get myself looked at then.