Sciatica

Many of our clients are coming in with varied presentations of this pesky syndrome! You’ve probably heard this term a lot as it is an umbrella term used to describe pain that reaches down one or both legs. The spectrum of intensity varies greatly and it shows up very differently depending on the source of dysfunction! The sciatic nerve comes out of your spine on either side of your L4, L5, and sacral 1-3 vertebra. It passes through a network of deep/internal hip and butt muscles and then down the backside of each leg. 

Simply put, any structure-bone or muscle pinching this nerve can produce pain, numbness, and/or tingling. It can be 10/10, unable to move, needing opiates to breathe easy-kind of intense, or it can be a lingering, obnoxious ache you somehow manage to stretch out just enough to evade having to do anything real about it. The people we’ve been seeing have been as high as an 8 and we beg of you, if you’re in the nagging ache category, please see us, or someone before it becomes a 10. Short of traumatic injury, our muscles can pull on our bones enough to start straining or encroaching on this nerve. Massage is an excellent tool to decompress the hip joint, release tight muscle and fascia to give it some more breathing room. If you’re experiencing something like this, come on in! We would love to listen to your experience and see if we can help. Full disclosure, if you’re already upwards of an 8, we will advise you see your physician first. For everyone else, don’t let it get that bad!

March 2024