The most common sciatica is the feeling of discomfort in the waist, accompanied by numbness and pain in the back of thigh and calf. Most of the causes are secondary to local sciatic nerve and peripheral structural diseases, such as lumbar disc herniation, and only a few are primary, mainly caused by inflammation. The most common is lumbar disc herniation. When lumbar disc herniation occurs, the sciatic nerve has some compression, especially when the patient bends his back, knees and toes touch the ground, the compression is aggravated and the pain is aggravated. If the lesion is located in the nerve root, the pressure in the spinal canal increases when coughing or exerting force, and the pain is aggravated.

Exercise method of sciatica

1. Swing legs left and right: The patient stands, supports the wall with both hands, and swings his legs left and right in turn without touching the ground.

2. Straight leg lifting: The patient lies on his back on the bed, straightens his left and right legs in turn, and then lifts his legs, and gradually increases the leg lifting angle with the deepening of exercise.

3. Cycling: The patient takes the supine position, and the lower limbs pedal in turn like riding a bicycle, which can gradually increase the pedaling range.

4. Sit up and lift your legs: The patient sits up. At the beginning, the injured leg may not be able to lift very high, and the lifting degree of the injured leg will gradually increase after insisting on training. Put your legs together, or put a thick book between your legs. Keep your knees straight, your feet on the ground, hold the edge of the stool with your hands, raise your legs over your navel, and then put them down.

5. Sit flat and push legs: The patient sits well, with his feet on the ground, his toes raised, his hands flat on his thighs, then bends forward and pushes his hands to his feet at the same time. It is difficult to push your hand on your foot at the beginning of training, and it will have a good effect if you persist for a period of time.

6. Squat and jump interchange: the patient holds the stool or fixture with both hands, bends his left leg and squats, and straightens his right leg as far as possible, alternating left and right.

7, in addition, patients can also use a hot towel or hot cloth before going to bed every day, wrapped in hot salt, hot compress the waist or buttocks, but the temperature should not be too high, it is better to be comfortable. This also helps to relieve sciatica.