The secret on how to cure sciatic pain

Sciatic pain is a pain in the ass or hip or glute or thigh, calf, toes. The basic point is you want it gone yesterday. But the problem is the sciatic nerve can be affected by a lot of different places. So having a one size fits all forming leg therapy doesn't work. I should know. I had it. I'll tell you more coming up. Before we move on, just take a second here to subscribe. Don't forget to hit that bell so that each time you'll be notified on when a new video comes out. We try and put out videos on how to best holistically balance your body so that you're free of pain, you're mobile, so you can live your best life. And then as you watch the video, please like and share it so the YouTube gods can see that this video is beneficial and that more people who could benefit from it can see it. If we haven't met yet, my name is Akima. So I'm the owner of Socore Fitness. I'm a summer trainer and a summer therapist. And I'm on a mission to help people get out of the health and fitness rut. I want them to become more educated about their bodies and what potentially they can do about different forms of stretches and exercises that they can perform, all so they can live their best life and enjoy their time here. Sciatic pain is a debilitating situation to be in. If you have it, you understand. I had it for about one to two years. About 15 years ago, my body had finally had enough of what I was doing to it. More on that later. And I developed sciatic pain. And so I had to follow all the suggested accepted protocols. I went to Dr. I got X rays, they found an L405 bulge. I they said that's probably it. More on that later, how it might not be. I tried pt, yoga, pilates, chiropractic, acupuncture, corrective exercises, more stuff. And it was taking up all my time and it was never giving me back to where I was before. It was basically just sort of keeping it at bay. But there's times where it really wouldn't work. And so I just have to find positions that didn't hurt me, like not breathing heavily. I wish that was a joke, but it's totally true. And just grin and bear it because it was terrible at that time because at that time I was working just as a personal trainer. And so I had to spot people, I had to pick up weights, I had to move around the facility. And with that sciatic pain it made it almost impossible. My sciatic pain started after my body had enough, had its last straw. I've been an athlete all my life. I've worked out all my life being sore, working hard. There's nothing new to me. It's totally normal. I expect it. Since I haven't had an injury before and I was doing everything that is generally acceptable, even now, to do for your body, I thought it was good. I wasn't thinking about holistic training or holistically taking care of the body. I wasn't thinking about other forms of corrective exercise. I wasn't thinking about integrative training. I wasn't thinking about any of that stuff because nothing happened to me. But by following these generally accepted rules again, that are still out there today, that took me down a very dangerous path. So indulge me a little bit as I kind of go through my story. To one, show you my experience, but to show you my experience relative to the different treatments I was trying to use and how they kind of did the same thing and how there wasn't much difference between, say, PT and yoga or chiropractic care and pt. So that last straw I talked about was me going to get underneath the squat bar to do squats, even though the little voice in my head say no, true story. I did it anyway because I'm a meathead. So I got into the bar and went down and didn't come back up because as soon as I got to the bottom of that squat, the whole thing seized up. I couldn't move. I literally crawled home, crawled into bed, my back seized up. I had to call 911 to take me out to the hospital. At the hospital, they did X rays. They found I had an L405 bulge. Okay, makes sense. So their idea of treating me was, here's your X rays, here's your L405, here's tolerance with codeine. Get out of here. So I'm not much for pain medication, but, dude, at that point you just wanted to go away a little bit or negate it somewhat. And so I took it and I instantly hated it. It made me so stupid. And so I, after a couple days of trying it, I'm like, this is not working. This treatment is not effective. So I then went to pt, which is the normal course of route. I went to PT. These PTs decided to just put heat in stim and have me do the McKenzie press up. And that's it. Their idea is heat in the stem, relax the muscles. I do McKenzie press up, theoretically the disc is supposed to go back down into the intervertebral segment and stop touching sciatic nerve. It made matters so much worse. But I believe them because they're professionals. And so I kept doing it because I know even at this time when I was just a personal trainer, that you have to continually do something for your body to re educate it. So I kept doing it, even though it hurt so silly to think about now. So as I was doing these exercises, I also went to my first chiropractor. His idea of treating me was heat and stim. It's crazy to me to think about these are two different professions, but yet their protocol is almost exactly the same. Obviously that didn't work either. My muscles weren't tight anymore after the first initial injury. So at that time I started to think, okay, what else? What else can I do? Mind you, I'm still doing the McKenzie press ups. And so I went to a yoga class and I talked to the teacher. First thing I said, hey, Look, I got L4, L5 biology. I got sciatic pain. I want to make sure that this is appropriate for me. I went to yoga because I've been told, and this is still something I hear today, oh, it's great for loosening flexibility and it'll help correct your lower back problem. Okay, So I went there and I talked to the teacher. Teacher's like emphatically, absolutely. You do this routine, this flow routine, which is I don't know how many exercises, let's say seven, just in a slow moving circular progression, like one after the other. Well, halfway through that routine, we go into a cobra pose. It is the exact same posture as a McKenzie press up. So obviously it hurt. And so I couldn't do any more after that. I tried acupuncture. I tried what I tried. I tried other things. None of it, none of it. The other twos didn't hurt me, but it also didn't help me. And so I was stuck in a plateau. I was doing all these routines a little bit from everything, trying to piece it together and trying to basically just keep my life from going downhill. It wasn't until I took matters into my own hand and dedicated myself to a program to really learn about anatomy and biomechanics and all these areas of the body that are there. But I was never taught in traditional trainings. This is why I finally discovered the real reason for sciatic pain, all the different areas that sciatic pain come from, and really started to cure myself from my sciatic pain. I am sure many of you who are watching this now have had similar experiences. I'd love to know about it. Just let me know in the comments what you've been doing and how it's been going. So after hitting my limit and realizing I need to figure this out, because I knew that if I had this compression L4, L5 vertebra and I had this sciatic pain that came from somewhere, but it was dependent on where it came from the body, I knew I needed to figure it out. I knew I needed to find out more about the body, more than just what was taught in general, personal training, and general information out there. So I started to learn everything holistically about the body. I learned more than I need to know about water, diet, nutrition, organic eating, circadian rhythms, mindset, meditation. All these things that I knew were part of life, but I never thought about, oh, yeah, they must be connected to making yourself a whole being. But I really got really big results when I ran into osteopathy. It's a term I'd never heard before, but is the philosophy is structure dictates function. If my structure is good, I function well. And I found the teachings of Guy Voye and soma therapy and soma training. When I started to study the body as it really is, not just with origin, insertion, and anatomical information. I started to see how the interconnectedness, interdependence, all these different areas I'd never heard before, play a huge role in how we function. That there's no way you could prescribe a recipe or. Or think there's one area that something should come from. Because if you do a recipe for the body, you get a bad taste in your mouth. Waka, waka, waka. So I knew that the sciatic nerve came from L4, L5, a little bit of S1. But as I studied further into the body, I saw that it also can come from S2 and S3. That, of course, it came out the greater sciatic notch, but it came out that notch through a small little opening called rishe space, along with the piriformis. I knew that it traveled down the back of the thigh, but I didn't know that it could be attached to the biceps femoris, one of the hamstrings. I knew this split into two different nerves, the tibial and common peroneal nerve, down to the back of the calf. But I didn't know that there's a popiteal space with a popliteal fascia and popliteal muscle. They can also affect it. So I Started to think about, okay, well, where did they say that my pain was coming from? It was coming from L4, L5. They gave me the prescription, basically the McKenzie press up or the Cobra and maybe some stem and heat and maybe ultrasound. Well, that wasn't working. So where else could it be coming from? Where I learned that there's a law called Pascal's law. So even though McKenzie press up is supposed to allow the disc to go back down into the vertebral joint, that Pascal's law says if I exert pressure on a spherical ball, that the pressure goes omnidirectional, which means as I extend backwards and the disc becomes compressed, sure, it could go back down in, but sure, it could also be pushed out the back or the front because of that omnidirectional pressure. It just depends on where you have a weak link. I learned that that richer space if too closed via Buisson's arch, sorry, Chambois bond and the sacrospinous ligament. And if that's too tight, it can pinch the sciatic nerve, that the piriformis can have an issue. And push on the sciatic nerve that the glute max could have an issue. Too tight, too close to the piriformis, too close the sciatic nerve and cause pain that the biceps femoris, like I said, could be too attached. So when you look at the body and you look at a picture, it says, okay, this is here, this is here, this is here, and this goes here. In reality, it's a little more jumbled up. There's a lot more tissue in between conjunctive tissue and a lot more fascia tissue where things are connected. So if that sciatic nerve anywhere along that plane is too attached to soft tissue and that that fascia is not extensible enough, that when I move, it pulls the sciatic nerve. If it pulls the sciatic nerve, it hurts. So you have to accept the fact maybe that you need to have a little bit of pain when clearing out the sciatic nerve. So the first thing you want to do is find out where it's coming from. There's a lot of great tests out there. The straight leg test to find out if it's coming from your spine. The fair test, if it's piriformis. My personal favorite is testing the SI joint and see how it moves along with some soft tissue examination. But I think back to when I had that and all the different practitioners. I didn't get one test. They looked at the X ray. They saw L405, they go, that's it. Not thinking, coming from somewhere else. And the fact that I was telling them I wasn't getting results didn't matter to them. Here's my recipe, here's what I'm giving you. If you, if you don't get results, who will? That's your deal. That's why I felt I had to become more empowered. So when I say think about working fascially with all those muscles I just talked about, I don't mean foam rolling, I don't mean taking a tennis ball and trying to roll around that area and think it's going to free it and open up the entire area. I don't mean taking a blunt object like drasting technique and driving into your tissue, trying to free that sciatic nerve from all those different areas. That might make you feel better in the short term because of the burst of endorphins and stuff from all the pain, but it's not going to cure the area you need to structurally reintegrate your body. Basically. If it's tight, stretch it. If it's weak, strengthen it, put everything back in place, tell it to do its job and you'll start to feel better. There you go. I hope you have a greater understanding now on why that sciatic nerve becomes so problematic in all the different areas. I hope that you can at least have better questions to ask now when you move forward to try and cure pain, I hope that you find techniques that help those more effectively than what I found. It's not a simple solution and know that unfortunately, the longer you've had it and the more your body has adapted to having that, the different soft tissues, the longer it's going to take, the more it's going to hurt. But you need to distinguish what's a good hurt, what's a bad hurt, right? You know what bad hurt is. You know what sciatic nerve pain feels like. That's not what you want. If you start to feel tightness or stretching or strengthening, all that stuff is good because it's reeducating your body. This is not a life sentence. It can be cured. If your structure is off balance, causing sciatic nerve pain, you, you can rebalance your structure to not have sciatic nerve pain. If you are stuck in that cycle of pain like sciatic pain, and you just want to find a way out of it, then I want to help you. I've got a free resource, I've got an ebook that you can find in the descriptions. All you have to do is click on the link and we'll send it right to you. But it's how to sustainably train your body to get out of pain, to be more mobile, but ultimately so you can live the life that you want. Again, just go to the description, click the link, put in information, get the download, and enjoy. Stay here to watch another video on another pain in the ass, the Piriformis Syndrome. Please don't forget to subscribe. Please like and share this so that others can see this video as well. And please remember it is not just working out, it's building a foundation for a better life. Adios.