Will physical therapy work for your back pain due to sciatica? Our patient Maria would tell you that the answer is a definite YES!
After her stay with us for physical therapy, she can confidently say that her back pain is gone. And now she’s starting to get back to enjoying the outdoors, right in time to start enjoying the wonderful spring weather.
When a patient comes in for sciatica physical therapy in the Elizabeth or Jersey City clinics, we always give each patient a personalized home exercise program. Numerous studies show that physical therapy in conjunction with a consistent home exercise program has the best results with getting rid of sciatica pain. But many patients often have the same, burning questions:
How often should I do my exercises? And do I need to do them forever?
If you’ve ever suffered from back pain from sciatica, as many of our Physical Therapy patients have, then you know how uncomfortable it can be. But you don’t have to live with that pain any longer!
Our November Physical Therapy newsletter is out now. Even better, we’re now offering our Physical Therapy Patient Newsletters digitally!
This month, we’re going into back pain, its’ causes, and how you can deal with it. Don’t forget to browse through to download the FREE mobile download for your back. In addition, browse around and check out our favorite recipe of the month.
For back pain, we’ve heard the tips about maintaining living a healthy life, and maintaining a healthy weight before. But what if you’ve a healthy adult that’s followed all the “rules” but still have back pain that just won’t seem to go away? What does this mean for you?
It’s an unfortunate fact of life that you’re most likely going to go through a bout of back pain in your life. Statistics show that about 80 percent of us have had at least one bout. Now there are the obvious routes that you can take to solve your pain that are historically and statistically proven to be the best solutions for back pain, such as beginning your course of Physical Therapy right away. But sometimes, back pain sufferers struggle to find solutions when back pain creeps in during their everyday life.
If you’re like most people that we’ve seen for Physical Therapy, then you’ve suffered from back pain at some point in your life. Statistics show that, currently, 80% of the population have had at least one run in with some type of pesky back pain. And, unfortunately, chances are good that the way that you handled the back pain wasn’t the best possible solution. All too often, people go for high-tech tests, heavy drugs, or surgery too soon.
As the summer ended, we all, as parents, went through our yearly ritual of getting our kids reading for the upcoming school year. As I picked them up after the first day of school, I found myself staring at all these kids, many of which already had loads of books, with bad back pack form. I just shook my head, as I just knew that back pain was just around the corner. Despite their potential problems, backpacks are great when used properly. Before you buy one, though, consider a backpack’s construction.
So you’ve gotten through part 2 of my top home exercises for back pain due to sciatica without pain. Great! Looks like you’re progressing quite well with my 3 Phases of Healing. I think it’s time to take these Physical Therapy exercises to the next step and get up onto our feet, shall we?
In my previous post, we began the series on my favorite exercises for back pain coming from sciatica that I give all my Physical Therapy patients in the Elizabeth and Jersey City clinics. We started out with a simple prone prop up on the elbows. Now that we’ve got the basic prone prop up on the elbows down pat, and once that exercise can be performed with absolutely no discomfort or pain, we can now follow the progression into the next motion:
