Therapeutic exercises with sciatica

Sciatica is one of the most complex diseases that any person can get, and, unfortunately, it does not depend on anything( neither from sex, nor even from the age of a person).Inflammation of the sciatic nerve, manifested during sciatica, is easily treatable, but the very treatment of sciatica is a very painstaking and lengthy process, which must be approached wisely.

There are a lot of ways to treat such a disease as sciatica. This variety is explained by a large number of reasons. First of all, the painfulness of the disease and persistence prompted more and more means to alleviate the suffering of the patient, many of which were pathogenetically grounded: some had the goal of influencing the periphery, receptive fields of pain sensitivity, and others tried to influence the sensory centers.

And, probably, there is no need to remind that before treatment it is always necessary to consult your doctor as soon as the slightest symptoms of this disease appear, because otherwise if you choose to self-medicate and untimely diagnosis of sciatica can lead to very undesirableConsequences.

The most effective methods of treatment of lumbosacral radiculitis( sciatica) are traditionally considered medicines. Medications and gymnastics are very effective in sciatica, mainly of course use special non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications that help to reduce pain and stop the inflammation in the disease. However, in addition to medicinal medicines, special health gymnastics is also mandatory, with sciatica disease, which will help a person to get rid of pain, and also help to relax affected areas.

With sciatica, gymnastics is an excellent tool for

. The therapeutic gymnastics for sciatica is a set of special exercises that are prescribed by a doctor to reduce the intensity of pain in the lumbosacral spine, and therapeutic exercises will help improve the overall condition of the sciatica sufferer.

Special exercises in the disease of sciatica, among other things, will help the patient to increase blood flow in inflamed areas and will thus act as a natural analgesic. In addition, special therapeutic gymnastics with sciatica disease helps the patient improve metabolism, and also contributes to a faster recovery than with only the use of medicines.

Therapeutic gymnastics for sciatica disease is best performed under the supervision of your physiotherapist who can tell you how to move properly, and the doctor will be able to tell you how to remove tension and pain with the help of medical gymnastics.

However, if you do not have the opportunity to do medical gymnastics under the supervision of a doctor, then you can conduct special gymnastics in case of sciatica at home. But we must remember that the main condition is the performance of special exercises in the disease with sciatica as carefully as possible, so as not to accidentally damage your health even more by these exercises.

Exercises

And then we'll look at some of the most basic exercises.

Exercise number 1. Initially, you need to take a position lying on your back, but remember that the surface must be rigid. And during this exercise, you need to slowly pull up the knees to the chest and when you feel the tension of the spinal muscles in the lumbar region, you need to remain in that position for about 30 seconds, then you must return to the horizontal position of the leg. You need to repeat this exercise 10 more times.

Exercise number 2. This gymnastic exercise must be performed lying on the stomach. It is necessary to make the main emphasis on bent elbows. It is necessary to pull the back for about 10-15 seconds. And after that, you need to relax and repeat this gymnastic exercise 10 more times( like the previous one).

Exercise number 3. Take the starting position - lying on the back. Then bend your knees in the knees. Then it is necessary to strain the muscles of the back and try to squeeze the spine as much as possible( and most importantly try to cuddle the lumbar spine) to the floor. It is necessary to remain in such a tense state for a few seconds, after such a strain you need to relax. This gymnastic exercise as well as the previous exercises should be repeated 10 times.

The above gymnastic therapeutic exercises for sciatica disease should be performed to reduce acute pain, and performing these exercises will help the patient to sciatica achieve general relaxation of all affected areas.

However, such health-improving exercises are not a panacea for such a disease as lumbosacral sciatica, it is more likely that these exercises can be called preventive methods and additional help for a patient suffering from sciatica. Therefore, with such a disease, you should not rely only on gymnastic exercises.

Therapeutic gymnastic exercises must be performed, but in addition to the sciatica patient one should not forget about the underlying cause of the disease and, of course, we should not forget about the inflammatory process that is currently taking place in the body of the patient with sciatica. Therefore, all the troubles connected with this disease can be cured, only if the patient will apply all the prescriptions of the attending physician, and traditional medicines should not be an exception.

And in the event that the patient will combine medical gymnastics with medical treatment, then a patient with sciatica will be able to quickly recover from such a complicated disease.