In our daily life, we often hear that people around us have sciatica, which is accompanied by radioactive numbness and weakness.
What is the reason for sciatica? The reason is that all are connected with sitting; Sitting at work, eating, watching TV at home…
Before you know it, sciatica came to your door.
Sciatica refers to the pain in the sciatic nerve pathway and its distribution area.
The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the whole body, which dominates a wide range of motor and sensory areas.
Sciatica is mostly persistent pain and paroxysmal aggravation, with few intermittent pain.
The pain radiates from the hip, along the back of the thigh and the outside of the leg to the foot, and the pain increases when walking, coughing, sneezing, bending, and moving the lower limbs.
What causes sciatica? Sciatica is caused by two main culprits – lumbar spine and piriform muscle.
The lumbar spine is located in the lower back, connecting the thoracic spine (from the middle back to the upper back) and the sacrum (coccyx).
It is important to understand the difference between the two so as to find the source of pain and cure it.
If your pain starts from the lumbar spine and aggravates sciatica, you must treat sciatica.
However, if your pain starts from the buttocks and then aggravates sciatica, you need to treat piriformis injury syndrome.
So, how to relieve sciatica? The following are seven yoga postures to relieve sciatica: 1.
Stick posture.
Sit up, straighten your legs and put your feet back together, hold your hands on the ground on both sides of your hips.
Stretch your spine, breathe deeply, and hold for 1 minute.
2.
Locust variant.
Lie on your stomach, put your hands on both sides of your body.
Inhale and lift your chest, lift your hands off the ground, palm up.
Raise your legs and stretch your instep, and open and close your legs alternately.
Repeat five times, Do three sets of 3 bridge poses.
Lie on your back, bend your knees, and align your knees with your feet on the ground.
Take a brick and place it under your hips, at the sacrum position.
Hold for 1 minute, and switch sides 4 and a half pigeon pose.
The right leg is forward, the lower leg and knee are on the ground, and the feet are hooked back.
Fold and extend your body forward, and hold for 1 minute, and switch sides 5.
Lie on your back, and bend your left knee, The yoga belt is put on the left palm of the foot.
The yoga belt is pulled down by both hands and held for 1 minute, and the side is changed into 6 snake position.
Lie on the stomach, and the hands are on the ground under the shoulders.
Inhale and lift the head, chest and abdomen are off the ground, and the arms are straightened, and hold for 1 minute, 7 minutes.
Sit and twist.
Sit, bend the left knee, and the left heel is on the outside of the right hip.
Bend the right knee, and the right foot is on the outside of the left thigh.
Twist to the right, Hold the left elbow against the outside of the right knee, and the right hand back on the ground.
Hold for 1 minute, and change sides.
Note: sometimes yoga, because the back of the thigh is suddenly and strongly stretched, will also cause pain at the base of the thigh near the sitting bone.
You can also use the above actions to relieve pain and help repair the strained part of the body.
How to relieve sciatica? The editor summarized the following common sense of life and health care for everyone: 1.
During the treatment of sciatica, patients were treated with massage for 10 to 20 minutes, once a day, 10 to 20 minutes each time, with better results.
2.
During the onset of sciatica, you should sleep on a hard bed and rest in bed, which is helpful to relieve the symptoms, but the time of bed rest should not exceed 3 to 4 weeks.
When the symptoms are relieved, you can gradually get out of bed for exercise.
3.
Patients should pay attention to keeping warm and moisture-proof to avoid wind and cold.
4.
Patients should strengthen physical exercise and pay attention to activities and working posture…
