To ease, remove and prevent your sciatica, you must address all the factors causing it. Sciatica is created by four main factors:

- tight muscles (especially your Piriformis muscle)
- weak muscles
- joint movement
- pelvic balance.

The tight muscles need to be stretched. Stretching effectively is the KEY, you need to know what to stretch, but knowing how and when to stretch are more important.

The goal of stretching is to ease muscles, stretching effectively means you can do this almost overnight. The main muscles to target are your Hip Flexors, Hamstrings and especially your Piriformis. But please do not stretch until you complete the first step below.

You must strengthen weak muscles, however before you exercise the muscle, you need to improve the nerve and blood supply to the muscles. If the supply is poor, exercise will not strengthen the muscle enough to remove pain.

A good nerve and blood supply also allows the muscle to maintain it’s structural support, which is needed for long term results to avoid low back pain.

Joints need to move freely, and you can learn some simple self adjusting techniques to accomplish this. Your pelvis is the most important factor. If your pelvis is out of balance, joints will slow in motion, muscles will tire and tighten. It is your pelvis that is the vital area to target to relieve sciatica pain.

Your sciatica pain relief specialist in Mid Michigan is Colestock Family Chiropractic in the Eaton Rapids community utilizing the Activator Method Technique. You can click on the “about us” link over in the right column or at the top for more information on hours and payment policies.