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the two most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- Hi folks.
I'm Bob Schrupp, Physical Therapist,
- Brad Heineck, Physical Therapist.
- Yeah, We are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet,
- in our opinion, of course, Bob
- today just for you, we have three best secrets
for immediate relief for sciatica.
Now this, now we're not really looking
for a cure here with these exercises or these movements
but we're looking to give you some relief.
So maybe you can go on and do our exercises
- right. -And get a cure.
- Actually, the third one will carry
over into the successful management and cure.
But this is like you said, you wanna
at least so you can manage and get rid
of that pain temporarily on a consistent basis.
- Right, So you can get through your day.
- Yes
- and survive.
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- Can we get on with the program program, Bob?
- All right.
You're you're you're in charge of
- Okay, So sciatica pain down the leg.
Most of the time sciatica is from a disc problem.
- Herniated disc - herniated disc bulging disc.
And it's putting pressure on the nerve going down the leg.
So we're trying to find something that can reduce
that pressure at least temporarily.
So it feels better because - yeah, it's, it's irritating.
Yeah.- Both Bob and I have had this there's nothing.
Well, there's not much worse
than having that numbness, tingling.
And they're just a pain that goes along with sciatica.
- It's a toothache in your leg and it doesn't go away.
- Right. - it's it starts to irritate you.
- So if you can find two nice solid chairs
like we have here or two, I've had people do this at home
in their kitchen where they have two cupboards, you know
like a galley kitchen.
- Yeah, You have center aisle and then you have the
- Right - right.
- Whatever. You just have two solid surfaces
that are going to be dependable.
And I'll go like this.
If you can lock your elbows out and get about that height.
And then I'll just gently take the weight
off of my back through my legs.
So my, my toes become unweighted.
- So basically what he's doing here is he's doing traction
on his back,
- right.
- and opening that, you know, opening up a little bit
so that there's more room for the nerve and is, and the
and sometimes it even sucks the disc
in a little bit, supposedly,
- right. If we can, they call it reducing the
the hernia or the bulge. So I'm gonna go like this
and I'll do this with a lot of my sciatic patients.
And it doesn't work on everyone.
I'd say maybe around 50%, I get success
with people and this will be part of their exercise program.
And you're just gonna hang there.
As long as the, the pain is clearly relieved in the leg.
And usually, you know
as long tell your arms, don't get tired.
Usually it's about 20 to 30 seconds.
Most people will do that.
And oftentimes when they come back
it'll the pain will come back.
But oftentimes it's not as severe.
And you could do this throughout day
as many times as you would like,
- And I'll point out, Brad
you're not lifting your feet up.
You're actually just getting up onto his toes and
Bending his knee.
- So I'm not dangling like this.
Yeah. But I'm just pushing off.
And I'm probably reducing the weight
through my legs about 50 to 75%.
And then there's a trick
with being able to relax your stomach muscles.
Because if you hold real tight
then it doesn't work so well.
But if you can learn to relax in through here
and feel that relief, sometimes it doesn't work.
But if it does, it really is a nice job.
- I know in the past, when you've shown this, Brad
sometimes people mention the inversion table
- sure. - And yes, an inversion table can work.
And Brad did use one for many years,
- right, yep I owned one and
- We have a video on one.
So if you put Bob and Brad and, and inversion table
you'll get our opinions on it.
- Right. And they'll explain how I recommend or, you know
I recommend music because I recommend it a little different
than what they show - they show, yeah.
- It's a therapists point of view.
- Okay. Now you wanna go to number two, which is number two.
I'll go ahead and get the stuff.
- Can you throw that at me, Bob?
- Sure. So you want one? - so nice
Whoa. There we go.
Using a leg wedge or you can use some furniture
and lay down on, use a carpeted floor, preferably
and then put your feet or like this.
If you had some furniture, you'd put your legs up like
- you can put your legs up on a couch or a chair
Or an ottoman
But if you don't,
you don't wanna get on the floor first off
cause sometimes people have trouble getting on the floor.
- Right. - This is a nice alternative.
- Yeah. You can use a leg wedge.
I just used this this week with someone in the clinic.
And once again they were, they wanted to buy one.
So I told them where they can get one on
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there's a store actually right down the road
from our well across that cost quite a bit more
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So they went and got one.
So we sure have tell the people out there to go ahead
and drive to lacrosse Wisconsin
and get one, whatever it takes.
But you'll get a cheap area.
You'll get it cheaper online.
But when you lay like this
there's something about for most people
this position is gonna relieve that sciatica
and that back pain.
- Well, one thing, it definitely
is opening those holes a little bit again, they're framing.
- Yeah. The framing - a little bit
of flexion, but not enough to make the disc problem worse.
- Right. - But enough to make it feel a little bit better.
- Right. And oftentimes if you take a cold pack
a nice gel soft cold pack
and you gotta put that right in here
that can be an additional relief, so
- Definitely help with spasms if you're having spasms.
- And usually you'll lay like this for 15
to 20 minutes to get that relief.
And then the third one
and this is the one that actually can lead into treat it.
Yeah.
Treatment. That's gonna cure it,
Bob, You wanna do this one?
- Sure. So you're gonna start
off just laying prone basically is what you're gonna do.
You're gonna start off laying flat
like this and you're gonna see
for some people they can't even lay like this -right
So they actually have to start with pillows.
You may start out with one or two pillows.
You can put 'em this way or this way
depending on what feels better.
And that'll help be make lane prone, tolerable
and actually reduce.
I've had this many times where they can't lay flat
on the table.
But if I put a couple pillows under there
then it'll feel good.
And the leg pain will start to go away
within a minute or two.
- The idea behind this is
that eventually you might even be pushing the disc back in.
- Right. - So that's the thing you wanna visually
picture. - You Bet.
- So you wanna start off with the two, if you can't
you know and if you can go down to the one,
- Right - and then eventually you're gonna go down to none.
- And this may take minutes.
You may do be able to do this within five minutes.
Sometimes it takes a couple days
of doing this depending how severe you are.
- Right. And eventually, if this feels okay
you might even just get positioned
like this - right - up on onto your elbows.
- And we promote this system all the time.
It's the Robin McKenzie system.
And you know, it's a worldwide system
because it's successful and that's why.
And so it progresses from here
and then it can go into the, the press-ups.
Do you wanna talk about that yet, Bob?
Or did you have
- no, I was gonna show one other thing first.
Brad, we're gonna show that sideline one.
- Oh yes.
- Because again, this is all about quick relief,
- Right - So the other thing you can do
quite often, if you're having trouble sleeping at night
let's say the pain is going down this leg.
That's the leg you want on the top.
Okay. So if it's this one you'd flip around.
So what you're gonna do is you're gonna
take a couple pillows. Usually it takes two.
Did you find that out Brad? usually it's two?
- Yep. - one might work.
- Right, depends on how thick it is.
- All you do is you put those pillows
underneath your ankles when you're sleeping on your
your side like this.
And a lot of times that opens up again
that gap just enough to take the pressure
off the nerve and you can actually sleep
without any pain going down your leg.
- Right, doesn't always work, but it it's easy to try.
As long as you got a couple pillows
and see how it goes, cause it can really
if you can get sleep, everything goes better.
- Yeah. Everything goes a lot better.
You're gonna have better, you know, healing going on.
If you can sleep, you sleep for healing
and what Brad was alluding to, you know,
what eventually you go into is
you actually start doing press-ups here and
that's where we have a whole nother video
on how you want to do those.
How often you want to do those, the variations
on how you wanna do those and that's where you should.
- Yeah. So the, the point is is if you get immediate relief
from laying on your stomach or with the pillows
this will likely be a good progression to actually
taking care of it and getting rid of it permanently.
- Yeah. You'll wanna watch our videos again
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And you're gonna find a whole playlist that videos
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And you'll be clearly educated on treatment
of sciatica.
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