What the FUCK can I do about sciatica? It won't go away. The pain is excruciating. It's ruining my life. Help me...

Piriformis stretch, hamstring stretches, TI band foam rolls, and dead hangs from a pullup bar (might be a bulging disc pinching nerves). I feel ya, faggot. I dealt with that shit for years. Not fun, but I did these things and it ultimately settled it.

Piriformis stretch saved my fucking life

The stretches will help (bloodflow near always helps an injured area), but some cases of sciatica are the long-term issues arising from a low back injury.
Every injury is unique, and the only real solution is manage and mitigate the worst of the pain. It's going to flare up at random. Period.
I've DLed heavy (sumo only for me now above 65% od 1rm) and felt better than when I wake up, and other times I'll get a flare-up from putting on my shoes

This.
Its kind of a shit hand we're dealt with, but just do the best you can.
Talk with a doctor about it and consider your options.
If you feel numbness be fuccing careful, consider surgery if all treatment fails

Join the club. You now do Jefferson deadlifts and front squats in the 5+ rep range. And you don't dig deep for that last rep, you drop it and live to lift another day.

It's not so bad though, can still make it

Check out painscience.com. Most back pain is actually not caused by physical problems but rather is a memory of pain which has grown out of proportion due to the feedback loop of having a small bit of pain -> mental worrying about it -> it gets stronger as a result. Sounds far-fetched at first but the book Save Yourself from Lower Back Pain saved my ass.

Yoga. I have herniated l4/5 and muscle relaxers work great but they don't solve anything.

Look up David procshyn deep release for lower back, hamstrings and hips on YouTube. I blew my back out in early June doing kb snatches and doing that video 4x got me back up and running.

Also shinbox crossovers, and spider stretch, they are amazing to stretch hamstrings.

Fix your feet. This is where it comes from. Other things will give you relief but fixing your feet will stop it from coming back.

How to fix feet? My stupid left ass cheek/hip doesn't fire correctly half the time and knotts the fuck out of my puriformis. I don't get pain, just tingling. Deadlifts seem to help my ass fire properly the most.

I suffer from this. Just reading this thread has subconsciously made me feel tingling. It's all fucking bullshit.

See a Physical Therapist

Go to a physio. Find one that is actually qualified and not a quack. I reccommend foreign women. I see a south African one myself. She is hot and she fixed me knee pain which turned out was caused by my hip of all things.

This is the true answer, or watch scoobs latest video on it. Its basically this answer with a video

This + someone here on a QTDDTOT thread a while ago told me to try the pigeon pose yoga stretch and honestly it's excellent.

I've heard of muscle imbalances caused by having too strong quads can cause knee pain

physical therapist
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this is true you should look at eric bugenhagen's stretching videos

like 90% of knee or back problems are attributable to hip flexor and quad tightnesses, since so many muscles link up at the hip area. To help sciatica specifically I like glute stretches, like sitting and hugging the knee of the leg that's got the sciatica to your chest with the foot crossed over your other leg. Stretch the fuck out of your ass cheek and the sciatica will abate a little bit. Keep doing that as much as you can.

yeah what all these anons said, stretches are key. mine was so fucking painful i could barely walk, until i found one particular stretch.. the one where you pull your foot back to your ass or whatever its called, now that im flexible enough it makes the sciatica poof disappear. other helpful ones too, but that one saved my.. legs.

It’s weird, I have sciatica but it’s on and off. I can go weeks to months without it and then one day I’ll wake up and I can barely walk. The episode could last like 2-3 days to a week and a half.

Is it like this for you guys?

youtube.com/watch?v=U6pR_qPCwDM

The forgotten part of tightness is that the root cause is usually weakness somewhere else. Adding single leg glute bridges with kneeling hip flexor stretching between sets has worked amazingly well for me. I had all sorts of knee, back, and hip pain/dysfunction that has now been clearing up pretty rapidly since doing this religiously twice a day.

thank christ for this thread

If it's a herniated/bulging disc, it might heal on its own. If it doesn't, surgery is really your only option, unless you like getting cortisone shots for the rest of your life.

>I don't recommend abstaining from an exercise that high school physics and biology dictate subjects the spine to forces it was never meant to be subjected to.

I say it's the spine until proven otherwise, but PS is perfectly plausible.

Adding a bunch of Jeff Cavaliere-tier complicated exercises isn't going to help you. See a doctor and don't prolong the suffering.

>don't strengthen the muscles in the area near your spine with safe exercise because my high school physics teacher said its bad lmao

It's too late for that. He needs a doctor, not DIY physical therapy. Save the macho posturing and squat dogmatism for the SS forum

>squat dogmatism
>light front squats and light DL is macho posturing
Alright, u got me, 8/10 b8 fug.
Though, yeah go to the doctor, OP, just make sure they dont waste your time. If they X Ray you and say you have a muscle spasm they are full of shit

desu if you have an injury that stops you from progressively overloading on those movements, the movements are no longer useful to you no matter how much the internet hypes them up

you're way better off belt squatting with no spinal loading and being able to actually add weight over time than you are sticking to some arbitrary "safe" weight on front squats for eternity