If you’re like me, you know first-hand how painful sciatica can be to deal with. This is what actually start me on my own search for a cure for sciatica. Maybe you’ve used one of those hot pads to ease the pain a bit, only to notice that the pain just comes back as soon as you stop using the pad. But guess what? It turns out that heat is actually the LAST thing you want to do if you’ve got sciatica. You should really be icing the area and then doing a few stretching exercises to get your back more flexible and centralize the sciatic pain to one specific spot.

Sciatica, in case you don’t already know, is an either stabbing or dull pain that can shoot from your hips and butt all the way down to your toes and feet or anywhere in between. Sciatica is caused when your sciatic nerve is pinched by one of a few different causes that all place pressure on the nerve.

After I discovered this, I started to realize that in order to fix sciatica for good, you need to deal with the underlying cause of the pinched nerve and not just mask it with painkillers or other ineffective forms of treatment. The sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in the body. branches out from the lower back and it runs down your hips, buttocks, legs, knees, and as far down as your feet and toes. So, you can experience sciatica pain anywhere from your lower back all the way to your feet.

Let’s take a look now at a few common causes of sciatica:

Not lifting heavy object in an appropriate way can cause nerve damage, which in turn can result in sciatica.

As we naturally age, our discs in our back may begin to degenerate with the space between them becoming smaller or even resulting in a herniated disc.

Also, your Piriformis muscle may become too tight and irritate the sciatic nerve. Your Piriformis is a small muscle that connects your hips to your legs, and it rests right on top of the sciatic nerve.

After learning exactly where your sciatic nerve is located and a few of the common causes of sciatica, you can deal with the problem better and you’ve got a better chance of really fixing it. Sciatica is by no means something to enjoy, but when you start to understand why it is happening, you’ll be better equipped to wiping it out quickly and easily on your own.

If you found this article helpful, and you’d like to learn some effective stretches for sciatica, be sure to check out: Exercises Sciatic Nerve on the website: Sciatic Nerve Help

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