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Suggest Remedy For Radiating Pain From Lower Back To Legs With History Of Sciatica
I keep waking up with lower back pain that also goes down my legs.I have sciatia, but manage to keep it at bay, except when I sleep. My doctor prescribed gabapentin to help, but it s not doing much. I woke up this AM with more pain than usual across the back of my abdomen and am not eager to try to sleep again even though I move to from my back to tummy.
Mon, 13 Feb 2017
Hello, you have history of sciatica and backpain, and also you are taking medicine for it. I can understand how much it will be difficult for you to deal with this issues specially in the morning.
here, I would like to suggest to some basic but worthful advice which will help you to minimise your problem.
first, when you woke up in the morning, dont try to get up from your bed immediatly. when you woke up, start some basic exercise in bed like fold your legs towards your tummy, repeat 10 times.
next, bend your hip and knees fully and move your legs as a single unit in both side.
next, hamstring stretching in bed.
next, calf muscle stretching in bed.
next, now you can get up from your bed with sidelying position and not from the front side.
I think this will help in less difficult in the morning hours. but start doing streching exercise and make it a routine habit. you may feel better.
I hope this will help.
here, I would like to suggest to some basic but worthful advice which will help you to minimise your problem.
first, when you woke up in the morning, dont try to get up from your bed immediatly. when you woke up, start some basic exercise in bed like fold your legs towards your tummy, repeat 10 times.
next, bend your hip and knees fully and move your legs as a single unit in both side.
next, hamstring stretching in bed.
next, calf muscle stretching in bed.
next, now you can get up from your bed with sidelying position and not from the front side.
I think this will help in less difficult in the morning hours. but start doing streching exercise and make it a routine habit. you may feel better.
I hope this will help.
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Hello,
If you have sciatica then precautions is must then remedies.although there are no permanent treatment of sciatica except surgery.but there are some home remedies which you can reduce the pain.some remedies are:
Hot /cold therapy: you can apply hot/cold compresses for 20 mins every 4 hrs to release the tension of muscles or muscle spasm.hot therapy reduces muscle spasm and cold compression reduces swelling of sciatic nerve.
Stretching: you can do stretching exercises to relax the sciatic nerve.
Exercises:Do isometric back exercises as spinal extension,ankle stretching for strengthening and reducing pain.
Massage: massage therapy can relieve sciatica pain and also help to reduce the muscle spasm.massage therapy increases the circulation and apply massage with mahanarayan oil for 3 -4 times a day until relief the pain.
Avoid forward bending,squatting,cross legging,floor sitting,heavy weight lifting.
If you have sciatica then precautions is must then remedies.although there are no permanent treatment of sciatica except surgery.but there are some home remedies which you can reduce the pain.some remedies are:
Hot /cold therapy: you can apply hot/cold compresses for 20 mins every 4 hrs to release the tension of muscles or muscle spasm.hot therapy reduces muscle spasm and cold compression reduces swelling of sciatic nerve.
Stretching: you can do stretching exercises to relax the sciatic nerve.
Exercises:Do isometric back exercises as spinal extension,ankle stretching for strengthening and reducing pain.
Massage: massage therapy can relieve sciatica pain and also help to reduce the muscle spasm.massage therapy increases the circulation and apply massage with mahanarayan oil for 3 -4 times a day until relief the pain.
Avoid forward bending,squatting,cross legging,floor sitting,heavy weight lifting.
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