What types of exercises can be done to relieve the pain caused by sciatica?

Answer 1

I find walking helps.

I also find it gets worse if I have a lie-in and spend more than about 8 1/2 hours in bed.

Potential ReliefStand close to a wall for support...While supporting yourself on the non affected leg, turn your toes out and lift your affected leg backwards slightly and hold. This is to try balance the active tone of the piriformis muscle. You may have to play with the degree of lift, but this should provide you relief.

In a certain percentage of the population, the sciatic nerve runs right through the middle of the piriformis muscle. This is a muscle that runs from the outside of the femur (the greater trochanter)to the sacrum (the center of the posterior pelvis and the base of the spine.) If this muscle is too lengthened or too shortened, it can cause compression or pressure on the sciatic nerve. This will produce the symptoms along the nerve pathway.

A chiropractor can help to balance the spine and therefore the gluteal muscles. Your problem may be more than muscular compression on the sciatic nerve, and a chiropractor will be able to assess the issue, whatever the causitive mechanism.

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Answer 2

Sciatica pain can be relieved by regularly strengthening the core through exercises such as crunches or sit ups. Stretching the hamstrings regularly should also provide relief for chronic pain.