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J L says:

Thank you, great information I’ll start using

Urban Xplorer says:

Very good, try this one, too https://youtu.be/38mb16L3GhE

James Rockland says:

Outstanding channel !

Lynn Kopper says:

Thank you for the videos: they have been helpful. I have been having pain for 6 months now and been going to a chiropractor. He recommended I get an mri since I still have some pain. Would you recommend I get one?

P says:

TRY drinking turmeric powder boiled in water with some black pepper in it. To make it even better, add some grated fresh ginger to it. Its the only thing that helped me, along with cobra pose stretching.

Kristoph Stjames says:

I have a herniated disc at l4 and 5, I also have an adjustable mattress frame,
should I slightly elevate the foot's end of the mattress for disc relief?

Yvette and Jorgen Larsen says:

I like your haircut in this one, Doc. Is that a fresh cut? it'll probably look even better when it grows out a tad in a week.

brodygoalie says:

Is it okay to wear a lumbar support brace while I am working. I work in retail and on My feet for my shift. Not much walking but definitely on standing on my feet. I do get breaks so I am able to sit in a chair for 15 minutes each break. So please let me know if it's okay to wear a lumbar support brace. Thank you

Julian FP says:

I had severe sciatica due to an L5/S1 left-side herniation in 2011 with a relapse in 2017 (both confirmed by MRI) and both resolved without surgery. I am currently on day 5 of my second relapse, not yet confirmed by MRI, and am again enduring the agony while hoping that conservative (non-surgical) treatment will work this time too. I have learned a lot over these episodes and thank you for the video. I have found that how well I fare each night, especially in terms of not getting into bad positions or making awkward moves in the night, is the biggest single determinant in how able to function I will be the next day. Sleeping badly, or even if I haven't been able to sleep but have been lying badly, can mean getting out of bed unable to walk more than a metre or so without crutches and even then getting from the bedroom to the kitchen is a major expedition. I think this video is so important.

Having said that I have one extra tip. You show the exercise at time index 5:00 where you pull your knees up to your chest. I have another use for this stretch/exercise/position that I find invaluable in bed.

As a side sleeper I find that it can get tedious lying dead straight and motionless for hours on end on the same side so sometimes I feel that I just have to roll over but that rotation of the lower back makes the pain so unbearable that it is impossible to simply roll over in bed the way that most people would do so what I do is, while still on the side that I want to get away from and before trying to roll over I pull my knees up to my chest to go into what I call the "diver's tuck" position, I can then roll over while maintaining that diver's tuck position the whole time, and once I am on my other side I gently come out of the diver's tuck by straightening my legs out again. Before I discovered this trick when I decided I simply could not stand lying in the same position any longer I would literally get out of bed, walk round to the other side of the bed, and get back into the bed lying on my other side.

As a second trick, again for side sleepers, I sometimes find that putting an extra pillow behind me and pressed up tightly against my back can help a tiny bit with the pain. I think maybe it's a bit like white noise i.e. as well as the constant pain coming from my back (no sleeping position is able to stop the pain completely for me) the sensation of the pillow pressing against my back gives some extra nerve inputs into that area for my brain to think about instead of just having the sciatic pain inputs to process. I confess that this one doesn't by any means remove the pain but it does reduce it just a tiny bit.

MAD says:

Thank you for your tips on sciatica. I’ve learned more to help me.