Lynne

[Guest guest]

Bill wrote;

In yoga classes I do a stretch that helps many people with sciatica pain. I

do my best to describe it but you may want to talk to a yoga instructor or

schedule a private with a yoga teacher or yoga therapist.

Lying on your back take one foot up towards the ceiling. Keeping the knee

straight take the lifted leg to the opposite side 45 degree angle to the

floor

and ceiling. Pushing up trough the heel bring the leg in towards your head

without bending the knee. Most people feel a stretch along the back of the

leg

and the outer hip.

I have been told that if the sciatica nerve goes though the muscle or

around

it pain (usually the piriformis muscle) and the muscle is tensed up, then

pain

can be the result.

It has taken me years to unlearn to store or put tension in different

muscles

that I did by habit before. I got interested and stayed with yoga as a way

to manage low back pain. Yoga is now a full time way of breathing and

moving...

 

 

 

Thanks for this Bill and for all the others who have made suggestions about

the pain - it is an awful pain really.

I used to do a lot of Yoga - I do a little these days and the breathing

helps me so much too - I will do as you suggest.

Love Lynne

 

 

[Guest guest]

Also the yoga position " the leaf " is suppose to be very good for sciatica.

I saw it in a Prevention Magazine and they recommended it specifically for

sciatica. I do it whenever I feel a tenseness in my back and have

incorporated it into my regular exercise program. Works for me.

Vegigran

 

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