Got Sciatica? STOP Stretching Your Hamstrings Like This!

If you've got back, butt or sciatica pain, you've likely experienced the tightness in the back of your hamstring and tried stretching it out. Chances are that the stretching 'hurts so good' in the moment- but your pain continues to come back or become worse. Let's talk about why this is happening and how trying to stretch away your pain or tightness may actually be making things WORSE and preventing you from healing!

Gone should be the days of a sheet of random stretches for folks suffering with back pain and sciatica. You know- the figure 4 stretches, hamstring rope stretches, IT Band stretches, bird dog, planks... the list goes on and on.

What most people and providers fail to realize is that stretching as a way to relieve back and sciatica pains can very quickly make things worse. If you've got back, butt or sciatica pain, you've likely experienced the tightness in the back of your hamstring and tried stretching it out. Chances are that the stretching hurts so good in the moment- but your pain continues to come back or become worse. If that's you- then in this video I'm going to share with you why this is happening, and how trying to stretch away your pain or tightness may actually be making things worse and preventing you from healing.

As you'll learn, most people think they are stretching their hamstrings when in actuality, they are tensioning their sciatic nerve. Not cool. Why? Because if your nerve is the cause of your symptoms (you'll learn how to tell in this video- using something we call structural differentiation) then stretching the sciatic nerve as little as 16% can cut off blood supply to it. If you cut off blood supply, you also cut off oxygen and nutrients that it needs to function. If stretched like that enough, it creates a poor healing environment.

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Видео Got Sciatica? STOP Stretching Your Hamstrings Like This! канала Dr. Charlie Johnson, PT