If you are one of the thousands of people that suffer from sciatica on a day-to-day basis, it’s time to start treating your pain. Sciatica is a condition that affects the sciatic nerve, the longest nerve in the body. It controls the feet all the way up to the lower back and can cause serious pain in not treated properly. Here is one treatment plan that has been successful in treating patient’s everyday.

This program’s main focus is called “Muscle Balance Therapy” and it has helped over 50,000 people suffering from various types of conditions such as sciatica. Muscle balance therapy can be defined as fixing the imbalances of the body that cause pain or discomfort. Most treatment plans start at relieving the pain first, where muscle balance therapy focuses more on the core aspect of your condition.

Do to your busy life; you have been placing continuous stress on your body. From activities such as golf, gardening, walking, running etc, all have affected your body’s muscles to become imbalanced. With this new treatment plan, you can safely and effectively relieve you sciatica nerve pain.

In order to treat you pain, this program finds specific muscles that are too tight or too week. Once these muscles have been found, specific exercises, therapy, and stretches are all applied to your exact condition. As a result, you are targeting the muscles that you are affected by, not your next-door neighbor.

This treatment program is the leader in treating patients with sciatica because it targets you and your condition. Unlike other programs that focus on a broad treatment plans, this will consistently work with your current state of pain and discomfort. Sciatica can be one of the hardest conditions to overcome if not treated properly and it is important that you start treating your pain before it is irreversible.

With so many different type of stretches or exercises you can do for sciatica, it is hard to pick out which will relieve the pain and ones that will not. Not all stretches will help your condition the same way it helps another. It is important that you understand the basic types of stretches first before going into the specifics. Here are some basic stretches that you can apply to start reliving you sciatica once and for all.

The first stretch is a knee to the chest stretch. Start by lying on your back and slowly bring one knee up to towards you chest. Using both of your hands, support your knee and hold for at least 15 seconds. This stretch should be done at least 10 times in order to get the full benefit and can be done at any time during the day. Be sure to find a flat surface and try to stay away from beds. Beds can lead to the spine twisting and flexing, which can cause serious pain to occur. You will feel this stretch in your lower back, hamstrings and buttocks.

The next basic stretch that you can perform is called the piriformis stretch. Start by laying on your back on a flat surface and bringing your knee up to your chest. Now bring your other leg underneath your knee so it is now crossed with one another. Pull up with you hands on your bottom leg to feel the stretch in your buttocks.

These two basic stretches are the core to your sciatica pain. It is essential that you do these types of stretches at least once per day to keep your muscles balanced. Always remember to find a flat surface when doing any type of sciatic nerve stretching. This will keep the back in original form and little twisting or turning will occur. After you completed these stretches, you can learn more advanced exercises that can all be done in the comfort of your own home.

These three simple morning (or anytime!) exercises will help you lose the back pain very quickly.

1) Tennis ball compression

This helps relieve tension from muscles spasms. If you have any knots or tension spots in your back, grab two tennis balls?(one for each side of your back or spine), wrap them together in a tower, and lay them on the floor side by side.

Then place these wrapped tennis balls underneath your muscles spasms and lay down

The workable concept here is that this relaxing exercise gives a free, easy, and relatively gentle pressure point massage for your lower back, or anywhere your back has muscle tension.

After a minute of laying there, breathing, you will start to feel your muscles relax. Their first reaction might be to tense up, but let them relax.

Once they are fully relaxed and the tension is relieved, you can get back up.

2) Reverse Swan Stretch

lay stomach down on your bed. Carefully and gently bend your knees so that your feet touch your butt, or close to it. Then carefully and slowly reach around and grab your feet with your hands. Gently pull your feet towards the back of your head.

Hold this stretch for as long as you can. Again, do this gently. This does not require force, the whole poitn is to simply move your muscles into a new position and lengthen them for improved blood flow so that your body and back can heal.

This stretches the front of your body and your abs for better support, and helps restore the natural curve in your spine by stretching it, and the muscles surrounding it, into place.

Gently rest and return your body back to form, laying flat on your stomach.?Breathe. Relax for a minute then repeat.

Once you have done this, do the following stretch which reaches your lower back in the opposite direction…

3/ Sitting Superman Stretch

First stand straight up with your feet exactly shoulder width apart. Then breathe for a moment. Keep breathing, of course.

Now, gently squat down and rest your chest against your knees. Keep your butt off of the floor.

Stretch your arms out in front of you gently.?You can think of this as the ’sitting superman’ exercise.

You ought to feel a stretch in your lower back. Tilt your head down so that you are looking at the floor. This will stretch your whole back.

Hold this position for as long as you can and then release, stand up, and breathe.

Repeat these stretches every morning when you wake up and over time they will become easier as your back pain seriously diminishes.

You’re welcome.

P.S.?If you feel the same exact kind of pain that you felt upon first injuring your back then you need to adjust your exercises. You ought to feel a good stretch or a “good”?kind of pain, not a sharp stabbing nerve pain. So keep that in mind and relax yourself if you have to. Feel free to stop an exercise and try a different variation whenever you need to.