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[dannyhall04]

As per title. Very painful and uncomfortable. Google says it'll go away on its own in six weeks (so about the time of our first game) but I'd quite like to actually be able to net without pain...!

[jd163]

Few family members and friends suffered from it.. You have to see a doctor to get pain and anti inflammatory medicines plus stretching exercises. Here are few good youtube for stretching.

https://youtu.be/9f1Y4OV3QlA

Hope you recover soon.

[Northern monkey]

Find a chiropractor

[well past my peak]

Yeah had it once not nice, doing a silly throwing drill brought it on, a unpleasant type of pain and lost power in one off my legs.
Put up with it for a couple months until found out about Sciatic Nerve Flossing. Pain went and stay away immediately.

this video eplains well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFKwNffX8zw

[joeljonno]

I'd echo the stretching suggestions and try to work on your core muscle group as well as legs.

I get it at times, mainly when I haven't stretched or warmed up.

I need to lose some weight too, which doesn't help.


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[mattw]

I didnt have it diagnosed but I struggled with sciatica or something similar in my lower back/hip which was affecting my leg movement.

It worked its way out eventually(I couldn't tell you how long I had it for, but it was for about 1 season), however for me I did a warm up of stretching my lower back before games. One exercise that really helped was lying on my back and then pulling a leg towards myself and then rotating the leg at the joint in full, big circles. Not sure on the name of the exercise but I felt that this helped me the best.

[rbanners]

Sorry to hear you're suffering -
1. If not formally diagnosed (can be diagnosed in history and examination) then you should get it looked at by a doctor
2. Medicine has usually an analgesic role only - it doesn't nothing towards resolving your sciatica but only easing its symptoms. If you need the pain relief to not do the Frankenstein walk and do the stretching and physio properly then of course you should load up on painkillers NSAIDs etc
3. "Undoing" it is based on physio and stretches - see www.sheffieldachesandpains.com for NHS approved advice
4. Not getting it again is based on understanding why/how you got it - there's more than one way - and as others have said, weak core muscles and improper use of your back - lifting is most obvious but bad posture and sitting incorrectly will also do it and usually are more implicated than lifting - cos we all sit and stand and run "wrong" more of the time than we are lifting something wrongly!

Hope that helps - good luck with recovery
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[SteffanLangholz]

Agree with Rbanners.

Sciatica can be many things. It can be:
Near lumbal:
- herniated disc/ stenosis (Worst case scenario)
-rotated vertebrae (osteopath/ chiro)
-tight multifidae or rotatores mm. (stretches and proper warmup.)

Buttocks:
- subluxated SI joint (hip/back connects here - Osteopath/chiro)
- Tight Glutes (Physio or stretches)
- Tight piriformis (VERY COMMON SCIATICA PAIN - Streches, foamroll, correction of your gait and driving posture)

And many many more.. Please advice with your physician.

Regards, a clinical physio.

[trypewriter]

Agree with Rbanners.

Sciatica can be many things. It can be:

- Tight piriformis (VERY COMMON SCIATICA PAIN - Streches, foamroll, correction of your gait and driving posture)

And many many more.. Please advice with your physician.

Regards, a clinical physio.

I have suffered from this and it is very painful. Different to a muscular pain and you can't 'run it off' - you feel as if your leg is starting to collapse if you try. Good Physio helped and exercises to keep it at bay are simple and easy to do.

[rbanners]

Agree with Rbanners.

Sciatica can be many things. It can be:
Near lumbal:
- herniated disc/ stenosis (Worst case scenario)
-rotated vertebrae (osteopath/ chiro)
-tight multifidae or rotatores mm. (stretches and proper warmup.)

Buttocks:
- subluxated SI joint (hip/back connects here - Osteopath/chiro)
- Tight Glutes (Physio or stretches)
- Tight piriformis (VERY COMMON SCIATICA PAIN - Streches, foamroll, correction of your gait and driving posture)

And many many more.. Please advice with your physician.

Regards, a clinical physio.

Thank goodness you went through all of that so I didn't have to!

Good revision for me!
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[Nothing2SeeHere]

Not to much to add beyond the yoga stretching exercises that jd163 posted worked for me.

I tried physio and chiropractors without sucess. Doing yoga finally sorted out the underlying problem (loss of hip flexibility during recovery from torn knee ligament) and I have been pain free ever since.

[SteffanLangholz]

Thank goodness you went through all of that so I didn't have to!

Good revision for me!
rbanners


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Just a day at work buddy

[Seniorplayer]

I am reading this and wondering if it's what I have struggled  to get out of bed this morning can't stand up from a sitting position without pain at the bottom of my spine cant cough sneeze or breath deep without it hurting can walk about but if I bend my back can't straighten up without lower back hurting  any thoughts anyone

[rbanners]

It's one of many possibilities - in any case, doesn't sound good!

Any low back pain, acute (started gradually or suddenly but new, discrete episode) or chronic (longstanding, as opposed to severe, which may wax and wane) should be properly assessed by your GP who will either be confident enough to diagnose on the basis of history and examination or refer you to physio for a better assessment and help with the correct course of physio.

Self diagnosis is not recommended unless you are confident about the cause and effect and happy to join the dots yourself...it sounds like you have a muscle strain/spasm more than sciatica which refers to the pinching of the nerve as it exits your backbone. This can go on to cause sciatica. But don't take my diagnosis - if it's bad and limiting you, get it looked at.
Hope you get on ok - do refer to that website I posted earlier to see what you may have...sheffieldachesandpains.com
Cheers
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[ProCricketer1982]

I am reading this and wondering if it's what I have struggled  to get out of bed this morning can't stand up from a sitting position without pain at the bottom of my spine cant cough sneeze or breath deep without it hurting can walk about but if I bend my back can't straighten up without lower back hurting  any thoughts anyone

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