Sciatic Pain

I know yoga is pretty helpful - pigeon pose stretches the piriformis muscle, which lays right over the sciatic nerve, sometimes relieving that tension can make a world of difference

I have the dreaded sciatic!!! I just walk and walk and it's actually a crap shoot whether it will hurt or not so I just move anyway. I do light aerobic tapes right now and walk outdoors. I do plan on moving more and more and (from past experience) I know it helps to alleviate it.

Try something different for workouts/movement!

Good luck to you!

Doesn't sound like sciatic, since the sciatic nerve runs down the back of your leg to your foot. The knee doesn't get involved.

Is the pain on the outside of your quad and knee? It may be IT Band. Google for IT Band Syndrome and see if that makes sense.

I've struggled with both sciatic and IT Band issues over the years. IT band had me limping for a year - no fun!

I agree a good chiropractor can help. For IT band, I had physical therapy and a chirpractor who also did graston technique to break up scar tissue/fascia - very painful, but very effective.

Best to go to your doctor and get examined and they can refer you from there. Good luck!

Completely agree !

Thanks for the info. For about 6 months last year I had severe sciatic pain, but haven't really had it much since last December. The more I think about it, it might be just REALLY tight muscles cause I rarely stretch. But I'll look into the chiropractor.. I'm a poor college student so I don't know if I'll be able to swing it

Some work on a sliding scale, so you might be able to find one within your budget. Ask around for recommendations though. I used to scoff when others would suggest that I see a chiropractor and assume that I just needed to stretch more or strengthen my muscles more (which I needed to do, but a good chiropractor will also help you with that). The cost was also a huge deterrent for me (I'm a poor grad student!). Finally, after being rendered incapacitated due to blinding sciatic pain way too many times, a friend of a friend who is a chiropractor convinced me to come in for an evaluation, no strings attached. This was 3 months ago. Now I'm training for my first half marathon.

Evil, evil sciatica! Accupuncture was a great help. I had a total of 3 treatments, the last in June 2011, and have had no pain shooting through my behind and down my leg since then. [rapidly knocking on wood] Now I do wii yoga a few times a week to keep things stretched out.