Sciatica treatment is most commonly administered to sufferers who have for many years been bending badly in the wrong places. In this article, you will learn about different habits that can stress the spine, and how you can get rid of sciatica simply by changing the way that you use your body.

The shooting pain known as sciatica occurs when pressure is applied to the sciatic nerve. Most commonly this occurs when an intervertebral disc has prolapsed, in other words a slipped disc. When the discs bulge, they often create pressure on the sciatic nerve where it exits from the spine. This is usually experienced as a numbness in the buttock stretching down the leg and sometimes all the way to the foot.

Discovering the underlying cause of sciatica is the very best way to figure out how to treat the problem with long-term success. Thus it is necessary to understand how a disc becomes prolapsed in the first place. For the most part, prolapsed discs happen from years of moving,  and bending in the wrong way. Whilst doctors don’t usually address this root cause, Alexander technique teacher’s specialise in it and they have an unbeaten track record in dealing with sciatica that cannot be shifted easily.

The Alexander technique was founded over a century ago, however up until recent years it had very little scientific study conducted on it, so there wasn’t much to back it up. In 2008, the British medical Journal published a study on the Alexander technique which concluded that it was a cost-effective solution to solving back pain, this also applies to sciatica..

Alexander technique lessons involve no violent manipulation of your limbs, but instead the teacher will softly correct your posture in order to release muscle tension. Usually, the people who suffer the most from back pain have some ingrained postural habits that have developed over many years and have ended up manifesting themselves as physical damage. To reverse these habits, and retain our natural healthy posture, the student has to take a certain amount of responsibility to make this happen. In this way, it has been said that the Alexander principle is more like teaching maths to small children than the usual approach of western countries, which is to prescribe medicine to patients.

In order to become free of the terrible symptoms that sciatica inflicts on its victims, takes a small amount of time, but it is not rocket science. It does not involve doing any bizarre stretches or being strapped to any machine, it is much more about common sense than anything. For instance, you might have had the experience of catching your own reflection in a shop window as you walk down the street and being surprised at how your posture is worse than you imagined. This surprise happens because the image that we see doesn’t match up to the way that we think we are. The originator of the Alexander principle, FM Alexander, called this faulty sensory perception.

To get a practical experience of what faulty sensory perception is all about, all you have to do is fold your arms. Now, without thinking too much just fold your arms the other way. 99% of people will say that folding of the arms the opposite way feels weird, although they can’t always say why. The answer is that they never fold it the other way so they have ingrained themselves in a habit. In a similar way, everyone’s posture at whether right or wrong feels normal to the individual. A lot of the time one Alexander technique teacher corrects posture, the student remarks that is it feels wrong, like they’re leaning backwards. Yet looking in the mirror confirms that their posture is completely different to what their body is telling them.

In the case of sciatica, the everyday habits that are causing the pressure on sciatic nerve feel right to the sufferer, yet they are the exact thing that is causing them so much pain.Making the link between these postural habits and the pain is the first step of many towards becoming completely pain free forever.

Now, the chances are that you have probably become quite self conscious of your posture as you have been reading this article, pulling your shoulders back and sticking out your chest to get rid of your rounded shoulders. Nice try. Unfortunately, all that has happened is a game of tug-of-war has taken place between two muscle groups. To clarify this, if you pull your shoulders back you are in actual fact tensing up a particular muscle group in order to compensate for another opposing muscle group which is also in tension. the result is that after a few minutes your muscles will become tired and she will go back into original unhealthy posture.

In order to overcome this problem properly, you need to not add more tension to your posture, but to release the original tension. And this is precisely what an Alexander technique lesson can help you to do.

I hope this has been of some help to those who are in desperate need of sciatica treatment. For more interesting information on this subject please visit the Sciatica Treatment Blog.

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