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Sciatica can be a real pain in the butt

Find out how we can help you beat it

About Sciatica

What is sciatica?

Sciatica is caused when there is pressure on, or irritation of the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve is one of the major nerves that runs through the lower back, buttocks and down the leg, and when irritated, symptoms may include pain, numbness, tingling and weakness in the legs. Symptoms are often felt in the hamstring muscles, often leading to misdiagnosis and incorrect treatment.

Why it develops

Usually sciatica will be due either to compression of the nerve at the spinal level, like when a bulging disk is pressing on it, or when the nerve is trapped by the soft tissue somewhere along its path. Much sciatica occurs as a result of compensation to movement and stability.

Treatment

The main factor which needs to be established  is why the nerve is being irritated. Once you’ve figured this out, you can treat it accordingly. The goal is simple, to relieve pressure on the nerve, and ensure it can ‘glide’ through the necessary soft tissue structures along its path.

Often there can be a very simple reason for sciatica developing, but often this gets overlooked and a more complex diagnosis is assumed. Understanding how you manage your centre of mass and good fundamental movement is essential in getting long term relief from sciatica.

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How we can help

What we can do

The first step is to  identify the type of sciatic pain you’re experiencing, and then to identify and correct any weak links in your kinetic chain (movement chain), which might be contributing to the pain. Sciatica can be a debilitating condition, we want to help you first manage it, then beat it for good!

Change your habits

If your lifestyle habits are contributing to the sciatic pain you’re experiencing, these must be addressed. We see lots of cases where the sciatic pain is simply due to the person compressing one side of their body through placing more weight through it. If your sciatic nerve is being compressed by how you’re sitting, standing or moving, then we need to change you!

What your investment represents

We believe treatment with us is not only about getting you out of pain or rehabilitating an injury. We feel you should get so much more, including:

  • Pain free lifestyle
  • Understand your weak links, and how to fix them
  • Better CORE stability
  • Move and feel beter
  • Improved walking gait (transfers nicely to running gait)
  • Improved posture / look better
  • Lean how to manage your lifestyle

More common injuries we treat

Back-and-Neck-Pain

Back and Neck Pain

Running-Injuries
Running Injuries

Foot-Pain

Plantar Fasciitis / Foot Pain

Elbow-Pain

Tennis / Golfer’s Elbow

Understanding-pain
Chronic Pain

Sciatic-Pain

Sciatic Pain

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Move better – Feel better – Pain free