Sciatica from SittingSciatica from sitting is one positional exacerbator typically experienced by many patients with any type of lower back pain. Sitting is an activity enjoyed by the human species for multitudes of generations. It is not inherently bad for the back or spine, but is still often targeted as a source of painful symptoms.
Sitting does increase pressure on the lumbar spine and is a minor source of general spinal degeneration. However, this is normal to experience and is not usually the cause of any pain. Sitting for long periods of time, just like doing any activity for an extended duration, can create muscular
stiffness
and even minor pain. This is why it is so important to get up and move around frequently while seated. Do not stay in one position the entire time you must sit down, but instead, try to vary your weight distribution and get up to walk and stretch every so often. Patients with some forms of actual anatomical
pinched nerve
conditions enacting their symptoms might find sitting is particularly painful. However, many patients with other forms of
sciatica
also find sitting to be a torture, even though there is no physical reason for the pain to exist. This occurrence is often part of the
conditioning
process which occurs to every patient with anatomical or psychogenic back pain.
Sciatica from Sitting SolutionIt is very difficult to avoid sitting. People need to sit for many job descriptions and also to drive or be driven to their various responsibilities in life. Even patients who successfully avoid sitting often find that after some time, they become sensitive to too much standing or even lying down. These multiple activity restrictions are most commonly associated with psychosomatic sciatica, since the pain condition will not be denied and will do anything to become the star of your life. Remember, these types of pains exist simply to distract the sufferer from repressed emotional issues, so they will do whatever it takes to be noticed as often as possible…Sciatica from Sitting AdviceIf you are one of the few people who actually have an anatomical reason why sitting is problematic, it is crucial to speak to your doctor about what can be done to end your pain, seated or not… Generally speaking, structural sources of sciatica respond well to indicated treatment options and should resolve in the allotted time frame of 2 to 8 weeks. Patients with long term pain or whose pain has not responded to appropriate therapy options are often misdiagnosed and are actually suffering from ischemic sciatica. These poor souls will typically go on agonizing for years or even decades, while their pain is mistakenly blamed on some innocent and coincidental scapegoat condition in the spine. This is a real shame, since a cure is generally available for these patients in the form of knowledge therapy. However, they have not even considered the true reasons for their symptoms, so they continue to quest for sciatica relief from a condition which is not even the actual causation of their pain…Sciatica from Sitting to Sciatica 4/14/09 Revised 7/23/11 |
Sensei Adam Rostocki
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