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Working with Sciatica
Working with Sciatica / ActivitiesNo matter what you do for a living, I bet your work exacerbates your sciatica symptoms. If you sit at your job, then sitting becomes agonizing. If you must work hard labor, then your back is torn and abused daily and you must drag yourself home everyday, barely able to function. If you stand all day, then your legs are simply wasted by the time you get home and that sharp pain in your lower back remains, long after you can finally relax in the evening. I remember what it was like to work in desperate pain. In fact, I was working 4 jobs during the height of my back pain struggle…Not Working with SciaticaIf you choose not to work, you will also suffer pain. You think it might be a good idea to give your back a rest and your doctor might have even recommended taking some time off work. If you are lucky, you might get to use some sick days or some vacation time to make up the losses. However, this time runs out fast and your pain remains. If you choose to continue staying home, you still can’t find comfort and you are becoming increasingly stressed over your financial losses and the effects they might have on your family. Times are tough and your sciatica is making it harder on everyone…Working with Sciatica FactsHere are some interesting work and back pain related facts:* Workers who have severe back pain, but do not seek medical attention recover faster and better than workers who seek treatment. * Lower back pain is the most common reason for any worker, in any profession, to miss a day of employment. * Work related stress is a major contributor to psychosomatic sciatica syndromes. * Workers who do not enjoy their jobs are 6 times more likely to suffer career influencing back pain than workers who love what they do. Working with Sciatica AdviceWorking seems like an inevitability of life. We are forced into a mold by society and we have little choice but to go out and provide for ourselves. While this is normal, it still creates tremendous stress in some individuals and can contribute greatly to the vast amount of repressed and conscious psycho-emotional emotional issues which are the foundation for most chronic sciatica concerns. Remember, while ischemia might be the actual process by which physical symptoms are created, emotional phenomenon are responsible for causing the oxygen deprivation process to start…During my 18 yeas of sciatica pain torture, I worked through my good times and bad. I almost never missed work, despite the high cost I paid for it when my pain was severe. I always coped with the symptoms and put the burden on myself, rather than shifting the load to fall on my employer’s shoulders… Later on, I discovered that it was this very attitude which helped contribute to my pain. My actual personality type made me pre-disposed to suffer from emotionally repressed issues because of my “goodist” nature in wanting to always do the right thing, despite the effects on me. Well, I lived and I learned… WILL YOU LEARN or simply KEEP SUFFERING? 9/14/08 Revised 12/18/09
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