Sciatica. Keeping it at bay. Tips?

[fredwilliams]

If you or a nearest & dearest in T'land suffer from sciatica, please post a tip (or ten!) about how you/they keep it at bay, thanks.

[dezzer111]

Try physiotherapy worked for me.

[fredwilliams]

Try physiotherapy worked for me.

Already tried, and still trying, dezzer.

Next!

[SJP17]

Walking really helped a relative of mine with it.

[Stantheman]

Chiropractor back stretching using weights, losing weight, firm mattress are a few things that help

[fredwilliams]

^ Thanks, SJP and Stantheman!

Hey, Stan... are you American "Nong Khai Stan" who moved to Chiang Mai quite a lot of years ago?

[Stantheman]

^ Thanks, SJP and Stantheman!

Hey, Stan... are you American "Nong Khai Stan" who moved to Chiang Mai quite a lot of years ago?

Fred, your welcome and no I'm not Nong Khai Stan, but I used to like his postings.

[rjj04]

Once you get sciatica it is always there in the background waiting for you to slip up... lift something heavy and/or awkward when you have not "warmed up" your back. When I initially herniated my disk twenty years ago I bought a book on back exercises which seemed to help (eg stretches like from-cat hump-to-superman) and walking 2-3 hours a day but it was excruciatingly painful for a couple of years. Losing lots of weight certainly helped. Disk degeneration is the source of the problem, so getting nutrients to them is important. I found the new science on this fascinating. Recently, researches have shown (through MRI scans) that cholesterol (independent of BMI) is linked to lower back pain and sciatica. People with narrowed arteries have an 8.5x greater risk of lower back pain.

Check the video below out...
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/back-i ... olesterol/

A good write up is here....
https://nutritionfacts.org/2016/08/11/p ... with-diet/

One other thing is, be proactive. The other day I was at Central Mall playing a bit of your it with my child and slipped and fell on my rear-end, much to the amusement of the locals ... so just in case I took an Ibuprofen to pre-empt any problem.... seems to help. I don't like taking NSAIDs but letting sciatica get a foothold again is far worse.

[Lone Star]

Stretch, drink lots of water to keep the discs pumped up and sleep with the sciatica side leg cocked up near your chest to keep that nerve stretched. Worked for me. It's been completely gone for over 20 years.

[saint]

^ Thanks, SJP and Stantheman!

Hey, Stan... are you American "Nong Khai Stan" who moved to Chiang Mai quite a lot of years ago?

Unfortunately BKK stan or Nong Khai Stan passed a while ago in his native America .

[TicToc]

Acupuncture

[fredwilliams]

^ Thanks, SJP and Stantheman!

Hey, Stan... are you American "Nong Khai Stan" who moved to Chiang Mai quite a lot of years ago?

Unfortunately BKK stan or Nong Khai Stan passed a while ago in his native America .

Thanks for letting me know, saint.

He was really enjoying his grub the last time I saw him, LOL.

I hope his wife and daughter are doing well, and that he found some nearer-by falang mates.

RIP

[rickfarang]

The exercises shown in the first three minutes of this video have worked for me for over 30 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbZzeO4P9YA

[rjj04]

The exercises shown in the first three minutes of this video have worked for me for over 30 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbZzeO4P9YA

Yes, that video is good. Minute eight is the cat stretch... very effective.