Sciatica Relief

Sciatica relief is not only possible it is almost guaranteed if you know what and where to target. Read on to find a simple technique you can use now to ease your pain temporarily and the one essential step to remove your pain long-term.

But first, some facts about sciatica to make you aware of the importance of correcting your sciatica completely the first time.

Research has shown that over 80% of adults suffer with back pain at some stage. Terrible I know. Worse still is the fact that only 25% of those in pain now, will be pain free in one year. The rest are worse or the same. This includes all those who sought help and treatment and those who decided to do nothing at all.

Why are the sciatica statistics so poor

The biggest reason why people fail to remove their pain completely is they fail to follow a simple step-by-step approach.

You need to remove ALL the causes of your pain. If not pain will return or fail to disappear completely. This is the biggest reason why people remain in pain.

The other reason why people return to pain is that they use pain as the only measure of success. Pain has gone, great then all the problems must be gone. In fact this not true. Pain is only a signal that the problem has become bad enough to warrant attention.

You need to think of pain as a fire alarm. It is a warning signal to say act now and correct the problem. When the alarm is turned off it doesn't mean all the "fires" have gone. You need to use other methods to monitor your progress to make sure all the causes have gone, not just pain.

More on that soon, but first a simple technique to ease your pain.

Simple sciatica relief

This technique will help ease your sciatica now, only temporarily but it will help. You will find numerous stretches that will help ease your pain, there are also some other techniques within our site that will help also.

This technique I still find the best and easiest to use. It uses Acupressure to help ease the pain and release some muscle tension. The main reason why your pain occurs is that you have a tight Piriformis muscle. Release the tension it the muscle and pain will ease.

The problem with stretching the muscle is that you can irritate the nerve and hence aggravate rather than fix the problem. Using Acupressure, you avoid any side-effects as you cannot cause any problem to become worse.

The following technique is an ancient Acupressure technique where you do not need to use any pressure or force. All you do is rest your hands on the points and wait for a few minutes or more.

You cannot overdo or overuse this technique, so you can hold it for longer if you wish. The Acupressure point will help remove tight knotted muscle tension, it will work for any muscle not just the Piriformis. Hence quicker than stretching a few muscles.

Simply rest your fingertips on the outside of your knees, just inside the hamstring tendon. You need to hold both points at the same time - so you can cross your arms over or under your knees which is the easiest way to hold this. The tendon is the springy rope you can feel as your bend your knee.

Hold this on the area for a few minutes at least, if not more. The Acupressure point is the size of your fingertip but has a 3 inch effective radius. So you cannot miss the point as you are close enough to the area. Again, no pressure just hold the point.

It is a simple technique and a better one to do than stretching. Like I said stretches can aggravate the nerve if you don't know the best stretch or muscle to stretch. Before you attempt to stretch, strengthen or self adjust any joint you must use the first essential step in sciatica relief. Otherwise you may make your pain worse.

The first essential step of sciatica relief

There is one step you must do before all others. Fail to use this step and you are more likely to make your sciatica worse rather than better. This is the one step that people fail to use and will account for all the poor results of sciatica relief.

The step is simple, all you need to do is find the causes of your pain. This is not how you sit, stand, lift or bend. It also isn't knowing you have tight muscles, weak muscles and poor joint movement.

The causes are the distortion patterns in your spine that allow the muscular and joint imbalances. There are four patterns and you need to know which you have to target your sciatica relief.This one step will save you a lot of time and pain, and must be used to be able to have long term relief from your sciatica.

What is the best approach to ease for sciatica relief?

To get long lasting results you must both remove the symptoms and the cause. First you must identify which spinal imbalances are present, then attack the symptomatic processes. This can be achieved by using many techniques from ice/heat, Acupressure and anti-inflammatory measures. Then you must perform corrective techniques that target the spinal imbalances.

The principles of Spinal Balancing address the both the pain and the root cause of the condition that is responsible for your lower right back pain. Through self assessments, your individual spinal imbalances can be identified, and a targeted corrective program can be developed for your specific needs.

Here are some related web pages of interest:

Trigger Point Release

Sciatica - what is it?

Spinal Balancing

Inversion Therapy